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latexr on June 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: macOS command-line tools you might not know about

To add, searching for “useless use of cat” will yield several results for those interested in learning more. Other examples include “useless use of echo” and “useless use of ls *”.

vram22 on June 27, 2023 [–]

Yes.

Even the Wikipedia page on cat has a section about that, titled eponymously.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)

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