Subj : Re: gnu utils
To   : acn
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Thu Jan 13 2022 11:50:15

On 12 Jan 2022, acn said the following...
 
 ac> Am 11.01.22 schrieb MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 in TQW_LINUX:
 ac> 
 ac> Hallo Meatlotion,

Hej Anna =)

 ac> While you are totally right that the latter is much shorter and might  
 ac> also be quicker, you have to _know_ and _remember_ that grep is able  
 ac> to count on its own.

Yes, you are correct, you do have to _know_ and _remember_ that grep can do 
this, there are others too that can count... I was only using grep as an 
example as it's probably the most common useless use of cat that I can think 
of, and it happened to be that exact thing on a video I was watching.

I have also been thinking that when on the CLI doing something interactively, 
it might be that you "cat somefile", then just up arrow into the last command 
and add a " | grep something" and build a command. I guess that's ok, but when 
scripting it's just bad form in my opinion to do something like that, although 
I'm pretty sure I have done that in scripts myself without thinking.

Another gripe I have, more aesthetics of a command over function, is adding 
spaces either side of the pipe, I would rather;

somecommand arg1 arg2|grep something|awk '{print $1}'
vs
somecommand arg1 arg2 | grep something | awk '{ print $1 }'

You may laugh, I guess I am too reading this back, but when I "CLI" having 
spaces with pipes just makes me feel so wrong lol.

I know someone who won't even have blank lines in scripts, I feel that's taking 



































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































it a little too far, but at the same time I get it.

Also, I'm a double-space guy and not a tab guy :P


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