Jim is talking about concatenating with cat at 5:58 and this is where I lose him for a moment. What is he trying to say?

Hi,

He is trying to say that cat allows you not only to print two files at the same time, but also to join them . I think he will show later hot to do it, but for example you can do it like this cat file1.txt file2.txt > files1&2.txt It will crate new file with content of file1.txt and file2.txt

I think that was Jim's point.

Cheers.

Jim is showing us different ways to read a file in the console. Although the true purpose of the program "cat" is to combine two files together, it can also be used to print the contents of a single file in the command prompt. This is a quick way to view a file without the interactive functions that the programs "less" or "more" provide.

Hey Kelly,

When he shows the one file "hello.txt" he is just trying to show the difference between 'less' and 'cat'. The difference being on a single file is that 'cat' just shows the full content of the file and returns you to the command line.

Hope this helps explain what he's doing. Cheers.

Hi there, you can cross check whatever the instructors are saying with the video transcript. Video transcripts are below the videos just scroll down.