[ale] Sed/Awk/PERL question

[Robert L. Harris]

You could just use redirects but I like Cat.  If you forget it, it'll 
just fade into the background
and a great tool will be lost to the nether....


On 12/1/09 8:29 AM, JK wrote:
> 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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