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.
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sramder@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
So confused. Wasn’t this what
catwas originally intended for?bhamlin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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.
sramder@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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.
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
From the link: Note: this repository has been marked read-only. Similar functionality can be achieved with diff and patch.