On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>>>> cat file | sed -e's/CN=DATA.OU=\(.*\)\.O=CO/CN=\1_DATA.OU=\1.O=CO/' >>>>>> >>>>>> Because a cat is a terrible thing to waste. >>>>>> >>> >>> So why cat | sed? >> >> I really don't see why that is a big deal. > > 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.