Use
cat can be used to pipe a file to a program which only expect data on its input stream.
As cat simply catenates streams of bytes, it can be used to concatenate binary files, where it will just concatenate sequence of bytes, and it does it well, although it might be useless in most cases.
Two main cases are text files and other cases.
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