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chraebsli to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 1 year ago

Touch a file in Linux

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Touch a file in Linux

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  • magic_lobster_party
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    I sometimes use cat to concatenate files. For example, add a header to a csv file without manually copy and paste it. It’s rare, but at least more frequent than using touch.

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      19•1 year ago
      $ cat file1 > output_file
      $ cat file2 >> output_file
      $ cat file3 >> output_file
      

      I’m sorry!

    • @dan@upvote.au
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      That’s its intended purpose - combining files together (the opposite of split). See the first line of the man page: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cat.1.html

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