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When not given a file, cat will just read from stdin, so you can use "cat > file.c", write some text, and send EOF with ^D when you're done.

Obviously, there's no way to go back and edit anything mid-stream, you have to write the whole thing out in one shot.



The backspace does work within the line.


If your terminal is in line-buffered mode.




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