*- On 4 Feb, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote about "Re: Counting number of lines
in a text file"
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Diego Delgado Lages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>cat file-name | wc -l
>
> I always wonder why people insist on doing
>
> cat file | otherprogram
>
> instead of just
>
> otherprogram < file
>
Or why not
otherprogram file
if otherprogram can take a file name on its command line,
as in
wc -l file
> Which is exactly the same, but saves processing time. Even DOS people
> do this, while DOS doesn't even multitask .. cat file | otherprogram
> is the same as cat file > tmpfile; otherprogram < tmpfile. Oh well
> I need coffee I think
>
> Mike.
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