glassyoghurtsipper@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoPoor doggo..lemmy.worldimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1567arrow-down131file-text
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minus-squareObilinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoWell, I have no idea what the commands do but I still enjoyed the joke.
minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoMan = manual. Not sure what cat stands for but it prints the content of a file to the terminal (command line).
minus-squarefeddylemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 year agoI believe it stands for concatenate.
minus-squarequaddo@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI learned it long ago as “catenate”. checks Google Yep, seems to fit.
minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoRight, I always forget it can do more than just print file contents. Well, not planning on remembering it tomorrow.
minus-squareelscallr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agocat file1 file2 > file3 => the contents of both file1 and file2 concatenating their contents into file3
Well, I have no idea what the commands do but I still enjoyed the joke.
Man = manual. Not sure what cat stands for but it prints the content of a file to the terminal (command line).
I believe it stands for concatenate.
I learned it long ago as “catenate”.
checks Google
Yep, seems to fit.
Right, I always forget it can do more than just print file contents. Well, not planning on remembering it tomorrow.
cat file1 file2 > file3=> the contents of bothfile1andfile2concatenating their contents intofile3