Depends what you mean by seriously. If by that you mean religiously avoiding cat at all cost, no. If by that you mean thinking about what you are actually doin

Depends what you mean by seriously. If by that you mean religiously avoiding cat at all cost, no. If by that you mean thinking about what you are actually doing on your commandline I say I do. Which makes me realize that yes, cat is more often than not redundant unless you are actually outputting the concatenation of multiple files.