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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 year ago (56 children)

Does anyone actually use touch for its intended purpose? Must be up there with cat.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (10 children)

what is cat's use if not seeing whats inside a file?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is short for concatenate, which is to join things together. You can give it multiple inputs and it will output each one directly following the previous. It so happens to also work with just one input.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s why we have bat now

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

[–] 0x0 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To bonbatenate files?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Exactly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bat bat bo-at

Bonbaten-fana fo-fat

Fee-fi-fo-fat

Bat!

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

Cat with wings? Isn’t a bat more like a rat with wings?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

TIL

I never realized. Thanks!

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