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But I need to cat! (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] verstra@programming.dev 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Interestingly, the name of cat command comes from "concatenate", which implies that the original purpose of the command was to concatenate byte streams into one. But for me, it is now just the command that "prints a file"

[–] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Time to change your entire universe by discovering "less".

[–] randomblock1@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"How do you read a file?" "Cat, more or less." ba dum tss

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

less is more, but better