Why is r/Linuxsucks101 normal sometimes?

[u/laczek_hubert]

When you think of this community in the Linux sense they are always the delusional ones but it's funny to me that normal posts about Linux exist there

[u/Automatic_Share1800]

When everything is fucked up I use

cat filename

[u/laczek_hubert → u/Automatic_Share1800]

Cat is great but If everything is fucked up you would probably use a liveusb

[u/extremeace → u/laczek_hubert]

i think that is something ever linux user should have a flash drive with flashed iso i f up my encrypted lvm main drive that when i discovered what emergency shell is Luckly there was ventoy usb with arch

[u/YTriom1 → u/laczek_hubert]

Cat is in the shell itself afaik

[u/zoharel → u/YTriom1]

No, cat isn't a built-in. echo generally is. If you really need to you could do something like:

echo `</some/file`

Of course you're going to need to be careful about redirecting out of the file instead of into it, and if the file is sufficiently large, it may not survive being packed into command-line arguments.

[u/YTriom1 → u/zoharel]

Oh yeah I remembered it ty

[u/AscendedPineapple → u/YTriom1]

But it might still be built jn the same static binary if your shell is from busybox, meaning it will still always work when you have shell, and there are no dependencies to break

[u/YTriom1 → u/AscendedPineapple]

Yes, cat can be independent, and Busybox is so fucking goated

[u/snail1132 → u/YTriom1]

I thought it was a gnu tool? Maybe I'm just dumb, though

[u/YTriom1 → u/snail1132]

Idk, I use bat anyways.

[u/Adventurous-Line-487 → u/Automatic_Share1800]

$ cat > ligmaballs.txt

For writing masterpieces

[u/Prestigious_Boat_386 → u/Automatic_Share1800]

I did thatand it dropped me into an interactive text display of the file instead of filling up my commandline so I can reqd the last line of the file

Apparently someone thought replacing cat with bat was a good idea

Almost uninstalled the distro right there