• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    cat is for concatenating files, so the opposite would be something that breaks a stream up into multiple files.

        • joranvar@feddit.nlEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          I mean… it’s nice that it exists and all, but I can’t really think of many useful usecases.

          • rc__buggyEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            I think I only ever used it in an intro to shell scripting where we (almost) recreated the function of tail

            • joranvar@feddit.nlEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              Something like tac | head | tac, I guess? Yes, that’s a valid use case indeed :)

        • joranvar@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Heh, no, but they do have a nice set of man pages and other documentation online. I prefer NixOS. Easier keeping track of configuration, easier rolling back of (and experimentation with) new stuff.