On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Larry Martell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >>>>>>> Because a cat is a terrible thing to waste. > >>>>>>> > >> > >> It goes back to the days of expensive computing resources when every > >> process mattered (the days of wooden computers and iron > >> programmers...). > > > > Exactly - it mattered once, but doesn't today. > > No, efficiency always matters - it is just that people who can afford > to waste resources don't care and people who make commissions on > selling the supplies actively discourage it. You probably wouldn't > make a pipeline of cat|cat|cat|cat to get input somewhere so why use > even one? > +1 One can also make a tangent to someone piping to grep and then piping to awk ... Just use awk to match your regexp! > > -- > Les Mikesell > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 // _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
