On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Larry Martell larry.martell@gmail.com wrote:
>> Because a cat is a terrible thing to waste. >>
It goes back to the days of expensive computing resources when every process mattered (the days of wooden computers and iron programmers...).
Exactly - it mattered once, but doesn't today.
No, efficiency always matters - it is just that people who can afford to waste resources don't care and people who make commissions on selling the supplies actively discourage it. You probably wouldn't make a pipeline of cat|cat|cat|cat to get input somewhere so why use even one?
+1
One can also make a tangent to someone piping to grep and then piping to awk ... Just use awk to match your regexp!
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