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[–] [email protected] 132 points 8 months ago (56 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago (6 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] 2 points 8 months ago

TIL

I never realized. Thanks!

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