Re: OT - Shutting down an RS/6000 ?

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Vern Hamberg wrote:
[snip]
> Someone asked about a number of commands - man, ls, etc. They do make some
> sense, usually - man means manual, ls is probably list, cat could mean
> catalog, although the connection with that in its current usage is probably
[snip]

Actually, cat is "conCATenate".  It reads each of the files given to
it as parameters and copies them to stdout.  So:

cat inFile1 inFile2 inFile3 > combinedFile

Would concatenate the contents of inFile1, inFile2, inFile3 into the
file combinedFile

Thus, it's fairly well named (in the Unix world anyway!)

Barry


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