[Gllug] OT: Tomcat & Apache mapping problem

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 23 Mar 2005, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:33 +0000, Steve Nelson wrote:
>>On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:18:11 +0000, Mike Brodbelt
>><mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $7}'
>>Or to avoid unnecessary cat and pipe usage:
>>cut -d: -f 7 /etc/passwd
>Ah, but I like cats :-).

Mmm. There is a general observation here that all operations of the
form;

cat one-file | operation

can be replaced with;

< one-file operation

Hence you could do < /etc/passwd awk -F: '{print $7}'

[although I would still use cut for an operation of this kind.]

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