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URLs.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414937"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="programlisting">svn cat TARGET[@REV]...</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414949"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>Output the contents of the specified files or URLs.
For listing the contents of directories, see <span class="command"><strong>svn
list</strong></span>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414966"></a><h2>Alternate Names</h2><p>None</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414976"></a><h2>Changes</h2><p>Nothing</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414986"></a><h2>Accesses Repository</h2><p>Yes</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414996"></a><h2>Options</h2><pre class="screen">
--revision (-r) REV
--username USER
--password PASS
--no-auth-cache
--non-interactive
--config-dir DIR
</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id415009"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>If you want to view readme.txt in your repository
without checking it out:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn cat http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/readme.txt
This is a README file.
You should read this.
</pre><div class="tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Tip</h3><p>If your working copy is out of date (or you have
local modifications) and you want to see the
<code class="literal">HEAD</code> revision of a file in your
working copy, <span class="command"><strong>svn cat -r HEAD</strong></span> will
automatically fetch the <code class="literal">HEAD</code> revision
when you give it a path:</p></div><pre class="screen">
$ cat foo.c
This file is in my local working copy
and has changes that I've made.
$ svn cat -r HEAD foo.c
Latest revision fresh from the repository!
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