>>>>> "grove" == grove <[email protected]> writes:
grove> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Peter Chubb wrote: >> Why use cat? >> >> Why not <file perl ... >> >> The extra process plus pipe just wastes resources. grove> You've been reading too much Randal Schwartz...... ;) grove> http://sial.org/howto/shell/useless-cat/ No I've never read that. But I come from a background running 60 users on a pdp11-70 with 256k of core memory --- anything that used unnecessary processes or memory was evil. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
