cat alternatives on windows

Tl;dr

• type (builtin)

  Can print multiple files, but unlike cat, the output will contain the filenames in addition to the contents.

• get-content, aliased as gc or indeed cat (builtin to PowerShell)

  Multiple files must be separated with a comma, instead of a space, e.g. gc file1.txt,file2.txt

• cat with cygwin, which is a unix-like shell on windows

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