OT: Grepping style (was Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.)

2011-12-01 Thread Andrew Reid
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:25:16 +0100, deloptes wrote: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE What's the purpose of this superfluous cat (and the pipe)? grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log I noticed that too -- I actually do this all the time, and I'm not 100% sure why. It's true that sometimes the

Re: OT: Grepping style (was Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.)

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew Reid wrote: deloptes wrote: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE What's the purpose of this superfluous cat (and the pipe)? grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log I noticed that too -- I actually do this all the time, and I'm not 100% sure why. It's true that sometimes the input to