mc_cat: Display object contents
In minioclient: Interface to the 'MinIO' Client

mc_cat

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Display object contents

Description

The cat command returns the contents of the object as a string. This can be useful when reading smaller files (without first downloading to disk).

Usage

mc_cat(target, offset = 0, tail = 0, flags = "")

Arguments

`target`	character string specifying the target directory path.
`offset`	start offset, default 0 if not specified
`tail`	tail number of bytes at ending of file, default 0 if not specified
`flags`	additional flags to be passed to the `cat` command. Default is an empty string.

Value

a character string with the contents of the file

Examples


# upload a file to a bucket and read it back
install_mc()
mc_mb("play/mcr")
mc_cp(system.file(package = "minioclient", "DESCRIPTION"), "play/mcr/DESCRIPTION")
mc_cat("play/mcr/DESCRIPTION")

minioclient documentation built on Nov. 7, 2023, 5:07 p.m.