[Gllug] bash startup

[Nix]

On Thu, 01 Nov 2001, tet at accucard.com spake:
> 
>>bash-2.05$ cat /etc/passwd | grep bash
> 
> FYI, you can do this with less typing:
> 
> 	grep bash /etc/passwd
> 
> Laziness is the one defining characteristic of a good Unix admin :-)

Quite so.

I'd venture to state that with the existence of input redirection and so
forth, *any* use of cat that isn't for catenation of files is a mistake
(albeit not a very harmful one).

Certainly I've never needed to use it for anything else.

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 between a pair of trousers and a desk.' --- Kieran, to me

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