1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/std/examples/cat.ts b/std/examples/cat.ts
index 3626e3c29..9e713d862 100644
--- a/std/examples/cat.ts
+++ b/std/examples/cat.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2018-2019 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
-async function cat(filenames: string[]): Promise<void> {
-  for (const filename of filenames) {
-    const file = await Deno.open(filename);
-    await Deno.copy(Deno.stdout, file);
-    file.close();
-  }
+const filenames = Deno.args.slice(1);
+for (const filename of filenames) {
+  const file = await Deno.open(filename);
+  await Deno.copy(Deno.stdout, file);
+  file.close();
 }
-
-cat(Deno.args.slice(1));