On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:08:44AM +0530, Nandan Marathe wrote: > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > > > the cat is unnecessary. Otherwise this looks the cleanest solution. > cut -d_ -f2- temp | sed -e 's/_county//' -e 's/_//g' > - Nandan
cat is not put out of "necessity". It's more a style matter. If you use cat at the source end of filter, modifying the filter chain becomes easier. (E.g. imagine having to shuffle filter sequence for efficiency. If you write 1 filter per line, it's mere a matter of dd and p in vi if you have pulled out cat file name at the source end.) Mayuresh. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
