<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>svn cat</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1" /> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url('images/draft.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top left; /* The following properties make the watermark "fixed" on the page. */ /* I think that's just a bit too distracting for the reader... */ /* background-attachment: fixed; */ /* background-position: center center; */ }</style> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion [DRAFT]" /> <link rel="up" href="svn.ref.svn.html" title="svn Reference—Subversion Command-Line Client" /> <link rel="prev" href="svn.ref.svn.c.blame.html" title="svn blame (praise, annotate, ann)" /> <link rel="next" href="svn.ref.svn.c.changelist.html" title="svn changelist (cl)" /> </head> <body> <div xmlns="" id="vcws-version-notice"> <p>This text is a work in progress—highly subject to change—and may not accurately describe any released version of the Apache™ Subversion® software. 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For listing the contents of directories, see <span class="command"><strong>svn list</strong></span> later in this chapter.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm11081"></a> <h2>Options</h2> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.revision"><code class="option">--revision</code> (<code class="option">-r</code>) <em class="replaceable"><code>REV</code></em></a> </pre> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm11086"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p>If you want to view <code class="filename">readme.txt</code> in your repository without checking it out:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svn cat http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/readme.txt This is a README file. Don't bother reading it. The boss is a knucklehead. INSTRUCTIONS ============ Step 1: Do this. Step 2: Do that. $ </pre> </div> <p>You can view specific versions of files, too.</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svn cat -r 3 http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/readme.txt This is a README file. INSTRUCTIONS ============ Step 1: Do this. Step 2: Do that. $ </pre> </div> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <table border="0" summary="Note"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"> <img alt="[Note]" src="images/note.png" /> </td> <th align="left">Note</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p>You might develop a reflex action of using <span class="command"><strong>svn cat</strong></span> to view your working file contents. But keep in mind that the default peg revision for <span class="command"><strong>svn cat</strong></span> when used on a working copy file target is <code class="literal">BASE</code>, the unmodified base revision of that file. 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