[ale] Sed/Awk/PERL question

JK jknapka at kneuro.net
Tue Dec 1 10:29:06 EST 2009


Robert L. Harris wrote:
> cat <file> | sed -e 's/;$//g' > file2


I think this is where someone (not me, never me) makes a football
analogy involving an N-yard penalty for unnecessary use of "cat".

Though to be fair, my response contained an unnecessary use of
copy-a-1.3GB-file, so I'll be quiet now.

-- JK



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