Re: SV: [Fun With Perl] Everything should be kept as simple as possib le...

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Willer <willer@interlog.com> writes:

Steve> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 patrik.grip-jansson@vv.se wrote:

>> >  cat names.txt|sed 's/||/, /g'|sort +0 +1
>> 
>> Well, the one thing that immediatly strikes me is that cat is
>> totally unneccessary. An ordinary redirection would look much nicer;

Steve> I realize this, but when I'm building a complicated pipe, I will often
Steve> need to change the first step (after the cat). So I got into the habit of
Steve> using cat at the beginning to make things simpler.

But no matter what the first step is, you still can type <names.txt,
either before or after the command:

	<names.txt sed s'/||/, /g' | ....

so no matter what you change 'sed' to, this will still work.

Please read the commentary on the UUOCA ... this is precisely why I
created the award, and is also one of the standard (weak :) arguments
about why the award shouldn't exist. :)

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