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▲ EvanAnderson 5 days ago

I actually use "COPY CON" a fair amount. Also a decent amount of "cat > foo.sh".

▲fuzztester 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Ha ha.

Same here.

Also, in shell,

  >file
can be used to delete a file, IIRC. Not at a Unix box right now, so can't check.

And:

  echo *
is the poor man's ls command, as in, "poor man, his Unix OS is corrupted , and many commands are missing".

And similarly dd is that man's cat command. :)

▲fuzztester 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

yes, it makes sense in some situations, because if all you want to do create a small batch (.BAT) file of a few lines, and you are a careful / good typist, the COPY CON method can be a lot faster then firing up your favourite editor, even a fast one like vim, to create the file, save it and exit.

and the same applies for UNIX.