cat command not working

[SecretCode]

Aside: if this was Windows, I'd say you have a virus!

[9072997]

jon@Laptop:~$ sudo mv /usr/bin/cat /usr/bin/cat-old
[sudo] password for jon:
jon@Laptop:~$ cat-old --version
fontconfig version 2.8.0
jon@Laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux Laptop 2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 19:00:26 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
jon@Laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/cat
ls: cannot access /usr/bin/cat: No such file or directory
jon@Laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/cat-old
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2011-05-17 17:34 /usr/bin/cat-old -> fc-cat
jon@Laptop:~$ dpkg --search /usr/bin/cat
dpkg: /usr/bin/cat not found.
jon@Laptop:~$ dpkg --search /usr/bin/cat-old
dpkg: /usr/bin/cat-old not found.

i run Ubuntu 10.10

it works now thank you so much

[CharlesA]

It seems that /usr/bin/cat-old is just a link to fc-cat

Very strange.