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. mark "besides, my cat doesn't like it, either, meeerroowwwww...."