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 10 months ago (2 children)

That’s why we have bat now

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

To bonbatenate files?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Exactly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Bat bat bo-at

Bonbaten-fana fo-fat

Fee-fi-fo-fat

Bat!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

TIL

I never realized. Thanks!