Subj : Re: gnu utils
To   : acn
From : deon
Date : Thu Jan 13 2022 21:04:58

  Re: Re: gnu utils
  By: acn to MeaTLoTioN on Wed Jan 12 2022 04:13 pm

 > While you are totally right that the latter is much shorter and might
 > also be quicker, you have to _know_ and _remember_ that grep is able
 > to count on its own.
 >
 > Whereas knowing that "-c" in grep can count the occurances of a
 > certain thing in a file is kind of a one-off knowledge that might be   
forgotten sooner than later...

The other point to keep in mind, is that different "unixes" have different 
"options" - but most unixes have the same core basic commands "cat", "grep", 
"wc", "awk" etc.

So while and argument might work in Linux (like grep -c), the same argument in 
BSD might mean something different (in this case, with grep, it doesnt). (I've 
certainly come across that situation at times).


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