From: Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com>
To: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
Cc: "tuhs@tuhs.org" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: On computerese
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:41:25 +0200 [thread overview]
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On Monday, September 16, 2024, George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> wrote:
> cat is capable of endless discussion.
>
> cat thing | cat otherthing doesn't do what (some) people think.
> cat thing | cat otherthing /dev/stdin does, but there's an ordering
> point to be made.
> cat thing | cat < otherthing /dev/stdin makes the ordering point. and
> the number of lines seen.
>
> the role of the shell in marshalling the IO and determining what is
> opened, when, truncated is another pitfall that seems to escape
> people. "I thought the commands ran left to right" when your first
> command < something and your final command > something
>
> like others, my use of cat is reflexive. I know perfectly well I could
> solve the whole problem in awk or sed, I still construct sequences to
> use sed to edit the lines, and awk to extract the fields in LSWP
> denoted counts. we're speaking english and say "comme ci comme ca" and
> nobody blinks, it's the same in shell. codeswitching!
>
I have always admired one letter commands in ed(1) and during the years
constructed my own personal perfect Unix dictionary with most often used
commands as one letter abbreviations. For cat(1) I have always used 'c'
(cee) which also denotes one of its main functions.
Grep(1) is 'g', vi(1) is 'v', etc.
It makes typing a little faster, at least for me.
--Andy
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2024-09-30 18:07 ` Dan Cross
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2024-09-15 19:36 ` Ron Natalie
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2024-09-16 3:10 ` arnold
2024-09-16 3:30 ` George Michaelson
2024-09-16 10:41 ` Andy Kosela [this message]
2024-09-16 10:59 ` Edouard Klein
2024-09-16 20:55 ` Dan Cross
2024-09-16 21:05 ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
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2024-09-17 1:27 Norman Wilson
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2024-09-17 12:08 ` Dan Cross
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2024-09-16 14:36 ` Clem Cole
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2024-09-15 22:01 ` Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS
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2024-09-16 23:16 ` Dave Horsfall
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2024-09-17 0:00 ` segaloco via TUHS
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2024-09-13 0:26 Douglas McIlroy
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2024-09-13 4:03 ` Eric E. Bowles via TUHS
2024-09-13 16:05 ` Åke Nordin
2024-09-13 7:13 ` G. Branden Robinson
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