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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [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] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

That’s why we have bat now

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

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