The great thing with old tools is that it had decades of testing and most even obscure bugs are already found and fixed. If I run 'cat' in my shell I know it w

The great thing with old tools is that it had decades of testing and most even obscure bugs are already found and fixed. If I run 'cat' in my shell I know it will print/output the file content. If I run 'shx cat' I get an interpretation of my file content. One use of 'cat' is to concatenate multiple files into one. Works great with classic cat, not so much with Shelljs. $ echo -ne "\0xac" > test.dat $ cat test.dat | xxd 00000000: ac . $ shx cat test.dat | xxd 00000000: efbf bd ...