Robin S. Socha writes:
> * Mike Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010221 03:19]:
>
> > cat /var/log/qmail/current | tai64nlocal | less
>
> http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/unix/award.html
It's not useless. It serves as a mental place-holder. It's where you
would put the grep if you needed to grep, instead of cat. It also
lists the single file that you're inputting. If you decided instead
that you needed to examine all the log files, instead of having to
change the whole command line, you just change "current" to "*".
Your anti-useless-use-of-cat crusade is a waste of people's time. It
comes from the old days where machine time was more important than
people time. We left those days at least five years ago.
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