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martron on Feb 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Useful use of cat(1)

Also surprisingly useful in command line video editing. For instance, you can join mpg files together...

cat intermediate1.mpg intermediate2.mpg > intermediate_all.mpg http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html#How-can-I-join-video-files_003f

icebraining on Feb 27, 2012 [–]

Well, that's the main purpose of cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output.

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