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

[Steve Willer <willer@interlog.com>]

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;

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



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