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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:11:03 -0800
From:      Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a perl question
Message-ID:  <20110105161103.GB94459@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110105234451.T49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
References:  <20110105120012.26D6710656E0@hub.freebsd.org> <20110105234451.T49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au>

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Quoth Ian Smith on Thursday, 06 January 2011:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 344, Issue 4, Message: 14
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:24:01 -0700 Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>  > > >>>>> "Patrick" =3D=3D Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick.bihan-faou@teambo=
x.fr> writes:
>  > >=20
>  > > Patrick> cat asdf.txt | grep -v XYZ | grep -v bla
>  > >=20
>  > > And yet, you still have the "Useless Use of Cat".
>  >=20
>  > The weirdest thing about most useless uses of cat is that not using cat
>  > would actually be a little clearer and involve fewer keystrokes -- as =
in
>  > this case.
>=20
> Do you know of any 'less useless' or more economical way to do such as:
>=20
>  % cat /boot/boot1 /boot/boot2 | diff - /boot/boot
>  %
>=20
> ?, Ian
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Here you're using cat for what it was intended -- conCATenation.  It's
the right tool for that job.

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