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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Well, I have no idea what the commands do but I still enjoyed the joke.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Man = manual. Not sure what cat stands for but it prints the content of a file to the terminal (command line).

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I believe it stands for concatenate.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    I learned it long ago as "catenate".

    checks Google

    Yep, seems to fit.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Right, I always forget it can do more than just print file contents. Well, not planning on remembering it tomorrow.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    cat file1 file2 > file3 => the contents of both file1 and file2 concatenating their contents into file3