Subj : gnu utils
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : deon
Date : Wed Jan 12 2022 07:48:51

  Re: gnu utils
  By: MeaTLoTioN to All on Tue Jan 11 2022 01:07 pm

Howdy,

 > When trying to get some info from a text file, or command output people tend 






































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































to do something like;
 > $ cat somefile.txt | grep something | wc -l
 > This would spit out the contents of somefile.txt, pipe it into grep to 
filter out just "something" and then count how many lines
 > contain
 > that "something", perfectly a normal thing to do, but it's so bloated and 
irks me to no end. Instead of this overly bloated command
 > one-liner, this can all be achieved in just a simple one command;

 > I dunno, that's just me, my quirkiness lol. Don't judge me =)

So this is "old school" or somebody who was taught "old school".

When I learnt unix all those decades ago, I was introduced to unix as a "suite 
of single functional tools" - in that you can combine the tools together to get 






































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































a complex job done - without having to write that complex tool.

I too often find myself doing

cat somefile | less

when I could just "less somefile", but I normally do that because I am actually 






































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































planning on greping, awking, wcing, etc...

I find it easier knowing that what I want will come from STDIN, and send it to 
STDOUT, so that the next tool can do its bit, rather than figuring out (often 
very different) switches to get file read.


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