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From: steven@uicadd.csl.uiuc.edu (Steven Parkes)
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Subject: Re: poking around partial or trashed systems
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Date: 18 Oct 90 16:39:31 GMT
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|> 	you can even do a fair emulation of the "cat" command using:
|> (while read line; do echo $line; done) < /etc/passwd

In this context (ram kernal) dd exists so I find

	dd if=/etc/passwd

much easier.