20 Aug
2009
20 Aug
'09
3:33 p.m.
On Thursday 20 August 2009, Raj Mathur wrote:
On Thursday 20 Aug 2009, Kussh Singh wrote:
Cat only works with text files, not binary files. I have tried it too to join split files.
cat is completely data-agnostic; in other words, no matter what the file contains, it treats it just as a string of opaque bytes, not text or binary. It works just fine for concatenating binary files. Hell, I've done "cat /vmlinuz > /dev/fd0" to make bootable floppies in my misspent youth!
What a waste. You could have used dd and had a life too ;-). So Kussh do a dd and be cat.
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