[CentOS] OT: Script Help

Larry Martell larry.martell at gmail.com
Thu May 30 14:57:14 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:37 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>> Am 18.05.2013 21:23, schrieb Larry Martell:
>>> cat file | sed -e's/CN=DATA.OU=\(.*\)\.O=CO/CN=\1_DATA.OU=\1.O=CO/'
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix%29#Useless_use_of_cat
>>
>> Because a cat is a terrible thing to waste.
>>
> Without even reading the wikipedia piece, I can give my own annoyance with
> anyone using cat to pipe through sed, or awk, or perl.... To me, that says
> they don't know their tools.

I am 53 and I have programming since I was 16. I've been using
Unix/Linux since 1977 and I've been gainfully employed since 1979
(never at a job where I had to use Windows). So I assure you I know
what I am doing.



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