[CentOS] OT: Script Help

SilverTip257

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Mon Jun 3 16:36:42 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at 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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