From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 10:59:13 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] dmr note on BSD's sins
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Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1705031055190.11767@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Tue, 2 May 2017, Doug McIlroy wrote:

> With Steve's eloquent grump and cat -v on the table, I can't help 
> re-citing the peerless cardinal sin of
>         less --help | wc

Speaking of "cat", what really drives me nuts is "cat file | cmd"...

What's wrong with "cmd < file" (or to really confuse newbies, "< file 
cmd")?

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."