Subj : gnu utils
To   : deon
From : hyjinx
Date : Sat Mar 19 2022 22:31:06

deon said:
 de> So this is "old school" or somebody who was taught "old school".
 de> of single functional tools" - in that you can combine the tools together t
 de> a complex job done - without having to write that complex tool.

Yep, same here. I learned my first outing in UNIX in 1997 or so at college.
It was SCO UNIX of some variatey. I believe the teacher taught us about
piping and cat was commonplace. I don't even know if less was even in that
version of UNIX, just more, but I was brought up old school like deon and it
stuck with me way too long. In the end I un-taught myself that muscle memory,
and whilst I do believe it is un-necessary wasted compute cycles, the
machines of today shouldn't really cough on it too much, and using cat to
help explain standard input and output then piping to another command is a
very clear way to demonstrate the purpose of piping, so I don't go too hard
on those that would teach this ;)

Al


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