Re: [PLUG] split & cat

[Thomas Thurman <thomas@thurman.org.uk>]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:44:52PM -0500, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > the windows version of cat (wherever that is to be found)
> type
> 
> (Imagine a Linux newbie's confusion when they try 'type file' and get
> 'bash: type: file: not found' instead of the contents of 'file'.  Old
> habits and all that.)

and people say Unix has badly-named commands! This must have happened so
many times:

 Newbie: How do I show foo.txt on the screen?
 Guru:   type foo.txt

 Newbie goes away and enters

   C:\>foo.txt
   Bad command or file name

   C:\>_

T

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