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! > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //