Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Pete Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:1. Because it's a useful working example, unlike many others
Why not pipe the output through less .. eg:
#> cat somedoc.txt | less
Why would you want to cat the file _and_ page it? That is a useless use of cat here, as less accepts STDIN.
2. I actually do just that sometimes. eg I cat a file and discover it's too long, so I back up and pipe it into less (or grep or awk or tail or head or head and tail).
Sometimes "cat file|" is clearer than " <some very long command> <file"
eg
cat /etc/passwd | awk "/$USER/ {print \$0}"Of course, the awk program could be quite a deal more complicate than that.
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