import click @click.command() @click.argument("input", type=click.File("rb"), nargs=-1) @click.argument("output", type=click.File("wb")) def cli(input, output): """This script works similar to the Unix `cat` command but it writes into a specific file (which could be the standard output as denoted by the ``-`` sign). \b Copy stdin to stdout: inout - - \b Copy foo.txt and bar.txt to stdout: inout foo.txt bar.txt - \b Write stdin into the file foo.txt inout - foo.txt """ for f in input: while True: chunk = f.read(1024) if not chunk: break output.write(chunk) output.flush()