On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:07:13AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > Do you know of any 'less useless' or more economical way to do such as: > > % cat /boot/boot1 /boot/boot2 | diff - /boot/boot > %
Actually, that looks like a useful use of cat, whose original purpose it is to concatenate the contents of two files. `cat /boot/boot1 /boot/boot2` concatenates the contents of two files, so that the resulting single text stream can be treated as a file to be compared by diff to `/boot/boot`. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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