Hi Tim,

> > I never even knew that catenate was a word ;-)
>
> It means the same as concatenate :)

But it might make more sense to people, be more mnemonical, if its
proper name of catenate was used.  Then we wouldn't have things like "I
thought it stood for catalogue".  :-)

dict(1) says "L. catenatus" for catenate and "L. concatenatus" for
concatenate.  Perhaps there's more of a distinction in Latin?  Anyway,
given I often hear people complain about the difficulty in remembering
command names and options I think it's worth being pedantic for the
mnemonic benefit.  :-)

Cheers,
Ralph.


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