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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

tee isn't exactly the opposite of cat but I can't remember a command that only redirects screen output to a file.

What is up, tee?

edit: what's the opposite of "cd .."?

[–] SpaceNoodle 5 points 1 month ago (8 children)

cat is for concatenating files, so the opposite would be something that breaks a stream up into multiple files.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

So, split.

Edit: although there's also tac, which could fit the bill as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean... it's nice that it exists and all, but I can't really think of many useful usecases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think I only ever used it in an intro to shell scripting where we (almost) recreated the function of tail

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Something like tac | head | tac, I guess? Yes, that's a valid use case indeed :)

[–] SpaceNoodle 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Heh, no, but they do have a nice set of man pages and other documentation online. I prefer NixOS. Easier keeping track of configuration, easier rolling back of (and experimentation with) new stuff.

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