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>>janvdb+(OP)
I always wondered where the name cat came from which the article doesn’t address. Any ideas?

>>ccanno+ca
It's short for conCATenate.

original man page: http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/cat

>>driver+na
And that was because it's function was/is to concatenate files:

cat f1 f2 f3 >f4