On 17/01/2011 12:30, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:
I just spotted this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix%29#Binary_use.
Is this working
because the .gz file is treated as a binary?
Cat cares not one jot the file format, it just sticks the bits together
AFAIK.
As I said
Hi Terry,
Now my understanding of cat goes back to a noddy Unix course about
15-20 years ago, but I always thought the 'cat' stood for 'catalogue'
and was used to list the content of a text file. Having looked at
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?cat though, I now know that it
stands
On Monday 17 Jan 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Now my understanding of cat goes back to a noddy Unix course about
15-20 years ago, but I always thought the 'cat' stood for 'catalogue'
and was used to list the content of a text file. Having looked at
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?cat
On 17/01/11 17:22, Terry Coles wrote:
On Monday 17 Jan 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Now my understanding of cat goes back to a noddy Unix course about
15-20 years ago, but I always thought the 'cat' stood for 'catalogue'
and was used to list the content of a text file. Having looked at
On 17 January 2011 18:01, Tim Allen t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 17/01/11 17:22, Terry Coles wrote:
I never even knew that catenate was a word ;-)
It means the same as concatenate :)
Tim
Moi non plus. I had always assumed that 'cat' was a perverted
short-form of 'concatenate' and
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.
cat works with mpg files too:
cat file1.mpg file2.mpg file3.mpg
file3.mpg is a valid mpg file!
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