On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:40:52AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-08-31 at 10:32, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > The Wanderer [2019-08-31T08:39:56-04] wrote: > > > >> (Yes, that's technically a "senseless use of cat". I do it anyway, > >> because always using pipes at every stage makes it easy to add or > >> remove filtering stages without having to adjust the syntax in another > >> part of the pipeline, and because it's easier to stick with that > >> habitual pattern than to change it up in the relatively few cases > >> where I can be sure that multiple stages aren't and won't be needed.) > >> > >> (And may I say that it's annoying to need to explain this every time, > >> in order to forestall being called out for "senseless use of cat"? Not > >> that I get called out for that here very much, but it does seem to > >> happen virtually every time I don't include an explanation...) > > > > Discussions about "useless use of cat" have wasted far more resources > > than the actual use of cat command. > > Agreed. I'm sorry for having started another one (and for continuing it, > for that matter, although apparently not sorry enough to have not done > so), out of trying to forestall exactly that. >
Don't apologize. This discussion hasn't devolved and if anything I've picked up a new technique (Teemu's placement of input redirection on the left) and some additional perspectives on reasons why people do things in particular ways. It is actually rather interesting. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
