Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:43:54 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a perl question Message-ID: <20110105174354.GA76738@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20110105234451.T49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20110105120012.26D6710656E0@hub.freebsd.org> <20110105234451.T49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 ] [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk0krdoACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKW4cgCg3M6ObhKLi7tjuqEngoLCD3qP w5wAoJ9rebWy7FcmhSyUM2Yand2nM7mu =xBq7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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