It is short for concatenate, which is to join things together. You can give it multiple inputs and it will output each one directly following the previous. It so happens to also work with just one input.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s why we have bat now

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To bonbatenate files?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Exactly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bat bat bo-at

Bonbaten-fana fo-fat

Fee-fi-fo-fat

Bat!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Cat with wings? Isn’t a bat more like a rat with wings?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

TIL

I never realized. Thanks!