Perhaps? This includes functionality to extract the contained files though, which cat doesn’t do. Tar basically does what this does, but metadata in tar is not human readable.
Yeah, very true. I had not read the docs… nor really thought it through. It looks like they realized similar functionality could be had with patch and stopped development. That’s a bit of a shame, there’s certainly room for more than one implementation of anything.
So confused. Wasn’t this what
catwas originally intended for?Perhaps? This includes functionality to extract the contained files though, which cat doesn’t do. Tar basically does what this does, but metadata in tar is not human readable.
Yeah, very true. I had not read the docs… nor really thought it through. It looks like they realized similar functionality could be had with patch and stopped development. That’s a bit of a shame, there’s certainly room for more than one implementation of anything.