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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 8 months ago (55 children)

Does anyone actually use touch for its intended purpose? Must be up there with cat.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (10 children)

what is cat's use if not seeing whats inside a file?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 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 8 months ago (2 children)

That’s why we have bat now

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

To bonbatenate files?

[–] kautau 9 points 8 months ago

Exactly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Bat bat bo-at

Bonbaten-fana fo-fat

Fee-fi-fo-fat

Bat!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

TIL

I never realized. Thanks!

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