• clemdemort@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      cat is actually used to concatenate files so if you have two files that you want to merge into a third one you can do

      cat file1 file2 > file3

      Especially useful for cracking old games

        • clemdemort@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’ve used cat to actually concatenate files a lot to re-assemble old Wii games once they were copied to a SIM card, less than using it to see inside a file though. Maybe cracked isn’t the correct word I’m not English lol.

    • nogrub@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      never execute “sudo rm -r / --no-perserve-root” because you whole sytem will be gone edit i forgot the directory

      • Damage@feddit.it
        4·
        1 year ago

        the -delete option in find goes AFTER the expression.

        find -delete [whatever] will delete EVERYTHING in the current directory and below, like rm -rf *

        • Faresh@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Huh. I wonder if GNU find should be modified, so that -delete only works when explicitly given a directory.