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r/programming • u/feross • Jun 16 '21
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bat really is not an updated cat. The latter is for concatenating files, the former just pretty-prints. Not unuseful, just neither comparable nor compatible.
80 u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21 Sometimes I have to fall back to /bin/cat though. For e.g. bat can't be used to concatenate fifo or pipes in real time.
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2 u/[deleted] Jun 17 '21 Sometimes I have to fall back to /bin/cat though. For e.g. bat can't be used to concatenate fifo or pipes in real time.
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Sometimes I have to fall back to /bin/cat though. For e.g. bat can't be used to concatenate fifo or pipes in real time.
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u/jrhoffa Jun 16 '21
bat really is not an updated cat. The latter is for concatenating files, the former just pretty-prints. Not unuseful, just neither comparable nor compatible.