On Sat 12 Jan 2002, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:12:37PM +1100, Steve Kowalik wrote: > > At 10:30 am, Saturday, January 12 2002, Rob Bradford mumbled: > > > I'm now a happy evolution user, to converyt my mail i did cat > > > Mail/lists/* | cat /var/spool/mail/rob > > > > > Congratulations, you get today's "Most Useless Use Of cat" award. Plague, > > and LART will be forthcoming. > > If you're going to be a pedant, so am I.
Of course, Steve *is* right. cat Mail/lists/* | cat /var/spool/mail/rob The first cat up to and including the pipe is totally useless, the way it's written. Of course, Rob probably meant a > after the second cat, in which case the pipe and the second cat is superfluous. Paul Slootman