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Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> writes:

> --On Monday, November 15, 2004 06:46:42 PM -0600 "Conrad J. Sabatier"
> <conrads@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > This is a useless use of "cat".  You could accomplish the same thing
> > with:
> >
> > grep WITH Makefile
> 
> When there are ten different ways to skin a cat, what makes one way
> inherently better than another?

Efficiency.
Using cat(1) spins off a subprocess.

http://sial.org/howto/shell/useless-cat/

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/