[Gllug] bash startup

Stig Brautaset stigbrau at online.no
Sun Nov 4 21:50:45 UTC 2001


* SteveC <steve at fractalus.com> spake thus:
> * Nix (nix at esperi.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> > On Thu, 01 Nov 2001, tet at accucard.com spake:
> > > Laziness is the one defining characteristic of a good Unix admin :-)
> > Certainly I've never needed to use it for anything else.
> 
> I often do something like
> 
> cat something | grep foo
> 
> then hit the up key and add something like
> 
> cat something | grep foo | cut -d'b' | sort

I'm sorry, but this *still* qualifies to the useless use of cat award :)

How about you try something like the following?

grep foo something | cut -d'b' | sort 

Regards,
Stig

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