Use "cat" to merge multiple files

Posted by annamese on Jul 8, 2012 11:11 AM EDT
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The "cat" command is mostly used for viewing files but not many people know that the original purpose of this command is for merging files together ("cat" is the abbreviation of "catenate", which means " to connect things together").

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