Cat

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Cat is a command to concatenate or just print files.. here is an example

cat file | head

which would pipe the file "file" to the program head.

#!/bin/sh

while : ; do
 read i
 echo $i
done

The above script serves as a rudamentary cat, when it's missing in a system.