nixCraft 🐧Nov 24, 2022
How to view a text file on your Linux or Unix box like a pro
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ 
@nixCraft cp test /dev/stdout
Aug 11, 2023 at 9:04pmWeb
Show threadlocness3Aug 11, 2023
@[email protected] @nixCraft any reason not to make cat an alias of that?
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ Aug 11, 2023

@locness3 @nixCraft You’d need a function, cat needs to handle multiple files, cp with 2+ origins wants the destination to be a directory.

Also it makes coreutils says rather funny things if you want the behavior of argument-less cat:

$ cp /dev/stdin /dev/stdout cp: '/dev/stdin' and '/dev/stdout' are the same file