what is the difference between Touch & cat command
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Answer / m.a.afroze
Touch : Touch command is to create an Empty file and it
bytes size is equal to 0.
Cat : Cat command is created with the related file
information.
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Answer / deepak kr. singh
touch Command is mainy used for Created 0 byte file called
control file which is used in the any process
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Answer / varsha
Main diff between CAT and TOUCH command is
By using touch we can create many file at a time.
bt by using cat command we can not create more than one file
or we use cat to display file content,create a file,append
nd copy file content into another file.
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Answer / sricharan
touch:
It can be used to create 0 byte empty file.
syntax: touch filename.txt
we can create multiple file using touch command.
syntax: touch file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt ..... filen.txt
touch commnad is also used to update time stamp
Syntax:touch filename
cat:
It can be use to view the file.
Syntax:cat filename
It can be use to append the existing file.
syntax: cat >> filename
It can be use to concatinate n number of files to one file.
syntax: cat file1 file2 file3 file4 >> newfile
cat is also used to create a file
syntax: cat filename
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Answer / hari
touch is cerate a multipule files at a time
ex:touch file1 file2 file3 file4
cat is onley cerate one file
cat>file
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Answer / prashant
The main difference between touch and cat command is that
touch command is basically used for changing TIME-STAMP
which includes modification time,access time etc as well as
used for creating empty files.
Whereas cat command full form is concatenation ....
means it is used for displaying the content of file
as well as concatenation of files in one single file.
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Answer / varun kumar
touch command is use make empty file and it can be used feature
cat command is use to create, copy , display and append the file
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Answer / lalit
good thanku for all asking an giving answer
please assign it as correct answer
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