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. -- http://kw.pm.org/ - Kitchener-Waterloo Perl Mongers - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://coder.com/ - Prescient Code Solutions - (519) 575-3733 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > uri > > -- > Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com > --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- > Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

