Is it wasteful to call cat?

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I’m sorry if this question is really stupid, but this is basically what I have been thinking about constantly. Suppose I run: A few hundred times a second. How much faster is my hard drive going to die?

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: cat ./somefile.txt

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Seven. But seriously, it's hard enough to know how long a disk will last while idling let alone under heavy load. There's no answer other than to say it will probably wear the disk faster. The better argument against this is it would generally be qu…

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