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What is the general consensus on "Useless use of cat"?
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When I pipe multiple unix commands such as grep, sed, tr etc. I tend to specify the input file that is being processed using cat. So something like . But recently after a couple of comments left on my answers indicating that this was a useless use of cat, I thought I would ask the question here. I …
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cat file | grep ... | awk ... | sed ...
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I often use in examples. Sometimes I am being accused of Useless use of cat (http://www.iki.fi/era/unix/award.html). I disagree for the following reasons: It is easy to understand what is going on. When reading a UNIX command you expect a command fo…
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