On: What do Unix command names stand for?

[dahart]

> The word is concatenate.

Catenate is a valid word, and synonymous with concatenate. Plus, "cat" makes a better 3 letter unix program name than "con", right?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catenate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenation

Googling the difference (hint: none) I found this lovely ditty:

I never concatenate strings; I just catenate those little things. Of syllables few, I'm a man through and through. Shorter words? My heart joyfully sings!

David Gries

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/JavaAndDS/files/catenate.p...

[emmelaich → dahart]

Not only that but the v7 man page actually uses the word catenate in the synopsis.

    cat - catenate and print

https://www.unix.com/man-page/v7/1/cat/

[jwilk → dahart]

Non-mobile links:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catenate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenation

[dahart → jwilk]

Thanks. I've edited & updated my links.