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[–] PoolloverNathan 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's a joke (afaik), cat only works for stuff like tar archives. Can't figure out what to use for text files though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You can also use cat to append some video file formats together, but honestly use ffmpeg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You use cat. It literally just appends the bytes of the two files to each other. It just so happens that the tar format can work with that