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minus-squaremagic_lobster_partylinkfedilink20•2 years agoI sometimes use cat to concatenate files. For example, add a header to a csv file without manually copy and paste it. It’s rare, but at least more frequent than using touch.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish19•2 years ago$ cat file1 > output_file $ cat file2 >> output_file $ cat file3 >> output_file I’m sorry!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-22 years agoThat’s its intended purpose - combining files together (the opposite of split). See the first line of the man page: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cat.1.html
I sometimes use cat to concatenate files. For example, add a header to a csv file without manually copy and paste it. It’s rare, but at least more frequent than using touch.
$ cat file1 > output_file $ cat file2 >> output_file $ cat file3 >> output_fileI’m sorry!
That’s its intended purpose - combining files together (the opposite of
split). See the first line of the man page: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cat.1.html