a perl question

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Ian Smith on Thursday, 06 January 2011:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 344, Issue 4, Message: 14
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:24:01 -0700 Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:33:03AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>  > > >>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick.bihan-faou at teambox.fr> writes:
>  > > 
>  > > Patrick> cat asdf.txt | grep -v XYZ | grep -v bla
>  > > 
>  > > And yet, you still have the "Useless Use of Cat".
>  > 
>  > The weirdest thing about most useless uses of cat is that not using cat
>  > would actually be a little clearer and involve fewer keystrokes -- as in
>  > this case.
> 
> Do you know of any 'less useless' or more economical way to do such as:
> 
>  % cat /boot/boot1 /boot/boot2 | diff - /boot/boot
>  %
> 
> ?, Ian
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Here you're using cat for what it was intended -- conCATenation.  It's
the right tool for that job.

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