[Gllug] bash startup

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On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 03:32:12PM -0500, SteveC wrote:
> * 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
> 
> or something... which is why I am used to doing it that way
> 
> have fun,

I guess using cat in this way is impure :(

personally I find it easer to think in terms of cat...
I have tried using constructs like

>> foo < bar   

but I find looking back at shell scripts it is much more legible if I
write 

cat bar >> foo

surely it is worth the two extra characters (only 1 extra keypress) for
the sake of clarity.

-- 

Sean
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