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cat is only for concatenation so it won't combine e.g. XML files, images, zip files etc. unless those files can just be splatted together.
by mcapodici 14d ago
cat is only for concatenation so it won't combine e.g. XML files, images, zip files etc. unless those files can just be splatted together.
- voidUpdate 14d agowhich .gz files can, according to the article, but the un-gzipped file contains an eof in the middle for the tape archive, so it stops reading early