chraebsli to Programmer [email protected] • 1 year agoTouch a file in Linuxprogramming.devimagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up11.2K
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink21•1 year agowhat is cat’s use if not seeing whats inside a file?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish28•1 year agoIt is to use along with split. e.g. You take a single large file, say 16GB Use split to break it into multiple files of 4GB Now you can transfer it to a FAT32 Removable Flash Drive and transfer it to whatever other computer that doesn’t have Ethernet. Here, you can use cat to combine all files into the original file. (preferably accompanied by a checksum)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year agoDoesnt computers do this automatically if you try to copy over a file larger than its per file size limit?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink62•1 year agoIt 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•1 year agoThat’s why we have bat now https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoCat with wings? Isn’t a bat more like a rat with wings?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-21 year agoBat bat bo-at Bonbaten-fana fo-fat Fee-fi-fo-fat Bat!
what is cat’s use if not seeing whats inside a file?
It is to use along with
split. e.g.splitto break it into multiple files of 4GBcatto combine all files into the original file. (preferably accompanied by a checksum)Doesnt computers do this automatically if you try to copy over a file larger than its per file size limit?
No. It just gives an error that it’s too big.
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.
TIL
I never realized. Thanks!
That’s why we have
batnowhttps://github.com/sharkdp/bat
Cat with wings? Isn’t a bat more like a rat with wings?
To bonbatenate files?
Bat bat bo-at
Bonbaten-fana fo-fat
Fee-fi-fo-fat
Bat!
Exactly