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This hasn't ever been practically useful,

I used it a couple times to merge chunks of gzipped CSV together, you know, like "cat 2024-Jan.csv.gz 2024-Feb.csv.gz 2024-Mar.csv.gz > 2024-Q1.csv.gz". Of course, it only works when there is no column headers.

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