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Does anyone actually use
touch
for its intended purpose? Must be up there withcat
.what is cat's use if not seeing whats inside a file?
It is short for concatenate, which is to join things together. You can give it multiple inputs and it will output each one directly following the previous. It so happens to also work with just one input.
That’s why we have
bat
nowhttps://github.com/sharkdp/bat
To bonbatenate files?
Exactly
Bat bat bo-at
Bonbaten-fana fo-fat
Fee-fi-fo-fat
Bat!
Cat with wings? Isn’t a bat more like a rat with wings?
TIL
I never realized. Thanks!
It is to use along with
split
. e.g.split
to break it into multiple files of 4GBcat
to combine all files into the original file. (preferably accompanied by a checksum)Doesnt computers do this automatically if you try to copy over a file larger than its per file size limit?
No. It just gives an error that it's too big.