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

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

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

Steve> What is wrong with this?

Steve>   cat names.txt|sed 's/||/, /g'|sort +0 +1

It's a useless use of cat.  If you had posted it to comp.unix.questions
or comp.unix.shell, I would have given it one of the weekly
UUOCAs.  See http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/unix/award.html

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