From: Dirk Heinrichs <dhs@recommind.com>
To: <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: cat as a builtin command
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:24:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54007106.3010305@recommind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU436-SMTP2045383EF41756D3376DB3CF4DB0@phx.gbl>
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Am 29.08.2014 um 03:40 schrieb Izumi Natsuka:
> Hello, I'm going to write a shell function that provides a basic
> functionality(print the content of a file or stdin) of cat[0], in
> order to avoid forking too many process when I call it in a loop[1].
I try to avoid cat alltogether, as many uses belong to the "Useless use
of cat" category, like this one:
>
> $ cat archlinux-2012.09.07-dual.iso | wc -c
> 39
Could also be "wc -c archlinux-2012.09.07-dual.iso".
Results in mostly cat-free shell scripts (I like dog(s) more, anyway ;-) )
HTH...
Dirk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-29 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-29 1:40 Izumi Natsuka
2014-08-29 11:58 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-08-29 12:24 ` Dirk Heinrichs [this message]
2014-08-29 13:20 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-08-29 13:33 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2014-08-29 13:03 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-08-30 10:11 ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-09-01 7:53 ` Han Pingtian
2014-09-01 18:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-09-02 1:08 ` Han Pingtian
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