On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Uri Guttman wrote:

> useless use of cat.
>
>       formail -s 'procmail -m /etc/.procmailrc' < bigfileofspamandham

different strokes.  by the same measure, it's a useless pipeline, plus the
single-quotes are superfluous. but the added clarity (to me) is worth the
extra characters, and the slowest part is most definitely not the cat or
the pipe, it's procmail.

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