Interestingly, the name of cat command comes from "concatenate", which implies that the original purpose of the command was to concatenate byte streams into one. But for me, it is now just the command that "prints a file"
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Time to change your entire universe by discovering "less".
"How do you read a file?" "Cat, more or less." ba dum tss
less is more, but better
Can I bat?
"So you don't catenate, you 🅱️atenate."
bat gang raise up!
Do not the cat. Pass name file instead.
'more' gang represent
Cat is overrated tac is where it's at