minioclient (version 0.0.6)

mc_cat: 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 = "")

Value

a character string with the contents of the file

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.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# 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")
}