I need need a copy of the cat binary that goes in /bin

Question

I called apple support and the server section is closed so I was wondering if anyone could help me replace the actual cat command file as I accidentally deleted mine.

Answer 1

Keith Barkley wrote:
If you were going to compile it, it might have been quicker and easier to just copy K&R's example. Since you are obviously a power user, you can probably skip all the error checking. Then again, you did delete your cat command...
Yes i did and I'm still reeling from the shock/embarrassment. The irony, of course, is nothing makes you a power user faster then the necessity of having to fix something you broke - although I don't actually think of myself as such. In this case, I can't even fathom the odds of how I just happened to be in the very directory that actually stored that particular file AND then delete it!
The only reason I added that last comment was to, hopefully, mark it as solved so anyone else might have a fighting chance but this interface has defeated me by not supplying the "This solved my problem" button that it usually provides.