can we use cat command as an editor ..???

Answer Posted / rupali

The cat utility concatenates and display files. It also
can be used as a primitive editor for creation one liners
or adding a line to the config file. There is also a
version of cat called zcat which performs operation similar
to uncompress -c or for GNU version gunzip -c on each
input file

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