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Re:macOS command-line tools you might not know about by latexr on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @10:37AM (#36493489)
To add, searching for “useless use of cat” will yield several results for those interested in learning more. Other examples include “useless use of echo” and “useless use of ls *”.
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Re:macOS command-line tools you might not know about by vram22 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @07:30PM (#36500160)
Yes.

Even the Wikipedia page on cat has a section about that, titled eponymously.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)

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