I know how to use Logcat and what it is usefull for but I am wondering why Logcat is called Logcat. The log- part is obvious but the -cat part is not.
Anyone have any idea?
I know how to use Logcat and what it is usefull for but I am wondering why Logcat is called Logcat. The log- part is obvious but the -cat part is not.
Anyone have any idea?
Probably after Unix utility called
cat
- see the manual here: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cat.1.htmlThe name
cat
is a short for concatenate, as the tool can be used to join multiple files.The
cat
tool is used frequently to e.g. show a file content on standard output (console). It's even common to call this operation to cat the file. I guess that's why we havelogcat
- it cats the log to standard output.