Git: whole file to stdout

git

Solution

`git show`

e.g.

`git show HEAD:./<path_to_file>`

Problem

Is there a command that can take a ref and a file path, and output the full contents of the file as it was at that commit to STDOUT? Eg. Something like this: ``` git show-me-the-file HEAD~2 some/file | do_something_with_piped_output_here ```

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