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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] kautau 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That’s why we have bat now

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

To bonbatenate files?

[–] kautau 9 points 11 months ago

Exactly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Bat bat bo-at

Bonbaten-fana fo-fat

Fee-fi-fo-fat

Bat!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Cat with wings? Isn’t a bat more like a rat with wings?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

TIL

I never realized. Thanks!