Atemu, 1 year ago It actually is. The file gets opened by bash and bash passes the file descriptor to cat but cat is the program which instructs the kernel to write to the device. Modern cat even does reflink copies on supported filesystems.
It actually is. The file gets opened by bash and bash passes the file descriptor to cat but cat is the program which instructs the kernel to write to the device.
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Modern cat even does reflink copies on supported filesystems.