How can I print a textfile on the command prompt in Windows?

Question

How can I print the content of a textfile on the command prompt in Windows?

In Linux I can do this with less textfile.txt, more textfile.txt or cat textfile.txt

What is the command for this in Windows?

Hello71 · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-28T00:51:24.093

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type textfile.txt If you want it page-by-page, more textfile.txt.

edited Oct 28 '10 at 00:51

answered Jul 12 '10 at 16:59

Hello71

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Or just more textfile.txt ... avoids a useless use of type – Joey Jul 13 '10 at 01:06
@Joey: Point taken. – Hello71 Jul 20 '11 at 19:43
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That was one hell of a lag ;) – Joey Jul 20 '11 at 21:15
@Joey: Just a year or so. About 31,536,000,000 ms latency. – Hello71 Jul 20 '11 at 21:32
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@Joey, Why do you say that type is useless? It's very useful for piping isn't it? – Pacerier Mar 20 '15 at 07:33
@Pacerier, you can redirect input from a file in a shell as well. And most programs dealing with stdin also have a way of dealing with files, e.g. findstr/grep, etc. – Joey Mar 20 '15 at 09:00
@Joey, But it's more standard to use only stdin and stdout and ignore the file arguments. – Pacerier Mar 23 '15 at 08:07

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 04 '16 at 12:48

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For printing the content of multiple files (e.g. textfile_1.txt, textfile_2.txt) the following, does also works :

    type textfile*

answered Mar 04 '16 at 12:48

vaggos2002

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