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How is the command ?$cat file2 ? different from ?$cat >file2

cat file2 - it will take the content to the file 2 and cat>file2 will display an error
Both used to display the contents
cat file2 - it displays the content of the file 2 and cat>file2 - if the file is empty it creates the content into the file2 and if the file has contents it overwrittens
Both used to append the contents