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    [–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] ExLisper@linux.community 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)
    [–] clemdemort@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Especially useful for cracking old games

    what?

    [–] ExLisper@linux.community 12 points 1 year ago

    HE SAID IT'S ESPECIALLY USEFUL FOR CRACKING OLD GAMES!

    [–] clemdemort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

    [–] creation7758@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

    Always remove the French language pack

    [–] nogrub@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    never execute "sudo rm -r / --no-perserve-root" because you whole sytem will be gone edit i forgot the directory

    [–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    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.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    This shouldnt do anything since you didn't gave it a directory to start with.

    [–] nogrub@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

    oh yeah i forgot a /