Cat is not meant for printing files to the terminal

Maybe I should’ve used a different title, the biggest “revelation” for me was that cat will concatenate files. It’s such a simple command, I never bothered to look at the man page. Although I still find it interesting that it’s original purpose was concatenation and not purely displaying file

> Strange: it says right there "concatenate files and print on the standard output".

Standard output is not necessarily a terminal.