• clemdemort@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 years 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·
            2 years 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·
        2 years 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·
          2 years 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
            3·
            2 years ago

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