CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de to memes@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoBut I need to cat!discuss.tchncs.deimagemessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up1198arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1188arrow-down1imageBut I need to cat!discuss.tchncs.deCyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de to memes@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square12linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareverstra@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 year agoInterestingly, 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”
minus-squaredb2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoTime to change your entire universe by discovering “less”.
minus-squarerandomblock1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year ago“How do you read a file?” “Cat, more or less.” ba dum tss
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”
Time to change your entire universe by discovering “less”.
“How do you read a file?” “Cat, more or less.” ba dum tss
less is more, but better