GnuTests: backport cat/splice.sh

[oech3]

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[github-actions]

GNU testsuite comparison:

Skip an intermittent issue tests/cut/bounded-memory (fails in this run but passes in the 'main' branch)
Skip an intermittent issue tests/date/date-locale-hour (fails in this run but passes in the 'main' branch)
Skip an intermittent issue tests/tail/tail-n0f (fails in this run but passes in the 'main' branch)
Congrats! The gnu test tests/expand/bounded-memory is now passing!
Congrats! The gnu test tests/rm/many-dir-entries-vs-OOM is now passing!

[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will not alter performance

✅ 339 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 46 skipped benchmarks¹

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_{Comparing oech3:patch-2 (b84176f) with main (ef50d8b)}

Footnotes

1. 46 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩