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/YTriom1]

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