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Indeed, I learned in school that it was short for "cat URL", since it functions like the standard `cat` command but takes a URL instead of a file or pipe. Just
by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Indeed, I learned in school that it was short for "cat URL", since it functions like the standard `cat` command but takes a URL instead of a file or pipe.
Just goes to show that we are very good at coming up with incorrect justifications for things.
- smnscu 9y agoThis reminds me of the time I wanted to build a URL shortener that handles lists and even hierarchies, and I bought the domain urls.cat (URLs `cat`). I realised then how close it was to "URL scat", so it's probably a good thing I abandoned the idea.