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minus-square@SpaceNoodlelinkEnglish5•4 months agocat is for concatenating files, so the opposite would be something that breaks a stream up into multiple files.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-24 months agoSo, split. Edit: although there’s also tac, which could fit the bill as well.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•4 months agoI mean… it’s nice that it exists and all, but I can’t really think of many useful usecases.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 months agoI think I only ever used it in an intro to shell scripting where we (almost) recreated the function of tail
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 months agoSomething like tac | head | tac, I guess? Yes, that’s a valid use case indeed :)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 months agoHeh, no, but they do have a nice set of man pages and other documentation online. I prefer NixOS. Easier keeping track of configuration, easier rolling back of (and experimentation with) new stuff.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agotac is a real command and does exactly what you think it is
cat is for concatenating files, so the opposite would be something that breaks a stream up into multiple files.
So, split.
Edit: although there’s also tac, which could fit the bill as well.
Hah, forgot about tac
I mean… it’s nice that it exists and all, but I can’t really think of many useful usecases.
I think I only ever used it in an intro to shell scripting where we (almost) recreated the function of tail
Something like
tac | head | tac, I guess? Yes, that’s a valid use case indeed :)Oh, you use Arch?
Heh, no, but they do have a nice set of man pages and other documentation online. I prefer NixOS. Easier keeping track of configuration, easier rolling back of (and experimentation with) new stuff.
tacis a real command and does exactly what you think it is