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I mean, timestamps aren't really all that useful. Really just if you do some stuff with makefiles but even then it's a stretch. I did once use cat for its intended purpose tho, for a report. We split up the individual chapters into their own files so we have an easier time with git stuff, made a script that had an array with the files in the order we wanted, gave it to cat and piped that into pandoc