dog - opposite of cat
dog [-c algorithm] [-e algorithm] [-d algorithm] [-h algorithm] [-i from:to] [-l] [...]
Dog is a program similar to cat (1), but it has many more features. Dog is able to translate the input.
Command-line options are based on cat. Dog does the translation after a cat listened.
-c or --convert
- do (asymmetric) conversion such as rot13
-e or --encode
- do symmetric encoding such as base64
-d or --decode
- do symmetric decoding such as base64
-h or --hash
- do checksum/hash calculation such as SHA-1
-i or --iconv
- decode then encode in input:output character encodings such as utf8:sjis
-l or --list
- show file type and inspect its contents (
tar -tvf
etc.)
cat(1)