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It's most definitely catenate. I understand catenate to mean chain and concatenate to be to chain together. Since "cat foo bar xyzzy" doesn't modify the files t
by ralph 14y ago
It's most definitely catenate. I understand catenate to mean chain and concatenate to be to chain together. Since "cat foo bar xyzzy" doesn't modify the files to join them in any way I don't think they're chained together.
Besides, ken & Co. aren't daft. con would be short for concatenate. :-)
- ishkur101 14y agoFrom the man page cat doc1 doc2 > doc.all concatenates the files doc1 and doc2 and writes the result to doc.all
- EchoAbstract 14y agoAccording to the 1st Edition and 6th Edition manual pages: NAME cat -- concatenate and print See: http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/cat http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/cat http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/cat http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/cat I'm pretty sure based on the timeline of pipe (~1973, roughly V4) that the cat command (~1971 V1) predates pipes.
- ralph 14y agoFortunately they fixed that errant man page. :-) http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/cat http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/cat