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Linux Cat (lemmy.zip)

submitted 21 hours ago by shark_byte@lemmy.zip to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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ahh

~$ which cat

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I still like doing cat file.txt | grep thing because I often re-run it to find something else like cat file.txt | grep thing2 - and if I do that with grep, the pattern sits awkwardly in the middle instead of at the end

[–] tgt@programming.dev 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

< file.txt grep thing also works.

[–] sqw 0 points 51 minutes ago

is it more obtuse