On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > 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.) > agreed that it helps out in more complicated solutions (sometimes i prefer the sponge <http://packages.debian.org/lenny/moreutils> ) for multi-manipulations with the pipe, but this case is too simple for the style factor :)
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