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[–] [email protected] 132 points 7 months ago (56 children)

Does anyone actually use touch for its intended purpose? Must be up there with cat.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

what is cat's use if not seeing whats inside a file?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Bat bat bo-at

Bonbaten-fana fo-fat

Fee-fi-fo-fat

Bat!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Cat with wings? Isn’t a bat more like a rat with wings?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

TIL

I never realized. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is to use along with split. e.g.

  1. You take a single large file, say 16GB
  2. Use split to break it into multiple files of 4GB
  3. Now you can transfer it to a FAT32 Removable Flash Drive and transfer it to whatever other computer that doesn't have Ethernet.
  4. Here, you can use cat to combine all files into the original file. (preferably accompanied by a checksum)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Doesnt computers do this automatically if you try to copy over a file larger than its per file size limit?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

No. It just gives an error that it's too big.

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