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use cat to merge two gz files

I have two gz files named 1.gz(315M) and 2.gz(2.6G). I use cat to merge the two files

cat 1.gz 2.gz > 3.gz

The size of 3.gz is 5.4G, I feel very surprised. How is this happened?

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updated by Ram Ram • written by qizhengyang17 • qizhengyang17

I cannot find the bioinformatics part of your question.

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written by Ram Ram

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That happened because you didn't just concatenate 1.gz and 2.gz, you probably put 2.gz in twice. As pointed out in the comments, this isn't a bioinformatics question as written.

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