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As an answer to question Lots of ram. How to use it?, I saw this script.

 find /home/user/.config/ /home/user/.gconf/ /home/user/.mozilla/ /usr/share/icons/current_icon_theme/ /usr/share/nautilus/ /usr/bin/nau* /usr/share/gnome* /usr/bin/gno* /usr/lib/ -xdev -type f -exec cat '{}' \; > /dev/null

Could someone explain what that line does? It also has an accompanying autostartup script.

sh -c "sleep 8; /path/to/the/script.sh" &
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By making cat read those files, it is loading all those commands into the RAM cache. The intention is to make all those files already in the cache when some application actually requests any of them. Another answer to that post explains this.

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