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Useless use of cat detected! Rememeber, nearly all cases where you have: cat file | some_command and its args ... you can rewrite it as: and in some cases, such as this one, you can move the filename to the arglist as in: some_command and its args ... file — Randal L. Schwartz ( http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html#cat )
I'll just leave one of my past comments [1] here. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17324222 P.S.: Not essential, but it really becomes a joy when, as a touch typist, I have turned on vi mode in the shell (e.g., with 'set -o vi'). My fingers never have to leave the home row while I do my shell piping work from start to finish. (no mouse, no arrow keys, etc.)
While reading the idea that I know most of this, would that made me a data scientist? Jumped at me.
But then I quickly recovered from that thought that surely knowing some of the tools someone could use for a certain domain does not make you expert at that domain.
Might just be the case of same ingredients, different recipes.
Ugly UUOC (Useless Use Of Cat). Damn peoples, please i appreciate your will to share, but share good contents and stop spreading bad shell patterns....
Why people use Linux in place of *nix ? Even worst, most of the tools (cat, grep, awk) are Unix commands, redeveloped by the GNU project in most of the GNULinux distros.
> Why people use Linux in place of nix ? I find it more irritating when people try to score greybeard points by saying *nix (or Unix) when it's obvious that they're talking about a Linux-only mechanism and quite possibly haven't ever used Unix (or a direct derivative).
Also, the most popular Unix-like OS (far more than Linux) is macOS, basically the least “leet greybeard affectation” thing I can imagine. Your irritation is way off base.
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> Why people use Linux in place of nix ? I find it more irritating when people try to score greybeard points by saying *nix (or Unix) when it's obvious that they're talking about a Linux-only mechanism and quite possibly haven't ever used Unix (or a direct derivative).
Huh? What is specific to Linux in this post? Also, the most popular Unix-like OS (far more than Linux) is macOS, basically the least “leet greybeard affectation” thing I can imagine. Your irritation is way off base.
Most popular Unix-like OS on MacBooks is MacOS.
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If you’re working with a lot of data you probably want to pipe it into head anyway, initially, so Can be the starting command. When you no longer need the head there, just get rid of “head |”. Although I agree that the pointing out of “useless cat” is usually not particularly useful or constructive.
Using head when there's lots of data make sense, but I really don't see any advantage to avoiding useless cat. Useless cat is way faster to type and make additions to. I sort of get the feeling that 'useless cat' is really just a fun copypasta kinda like when people like post "I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it..."
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Huh? What is specific to Linux in this post? Also, the most popular Unix-like OS (far more than Linux) is macOS, basically the least “leet greybeard affectation” thing I can imagine. Your irritation is way off base.
Most popular Unix-like OS on consumer devices is Linux (Android). Most popular Unix-like OS on servers is Linux. Most popular Unix-like OS in embedded is Linux. Most popular Unix-like OS on supercomputers is Linux. Most popular Unix-like OS on IBM PC compatible computers or notebooks is MS Windows with WSL. Most popular Unix-like OS on MacBooks is MacOS.
To bring us back to the context of this post: I am quite willing to bet that “grep” and “cat” are used by humans more times per day on macOS than on any other OS.