Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:08:14 11/18/02
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On November 18, 2002 at 21:37:28, Tom Likens wrote: >On November 18, 2002 at 18:23:17, Dieter Buerssner wrote: > >>On November 18, 2002 at 18:15:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >> >>>I just did the simple >>> >>>cat *.c *.h *.cpp | wc -l >> >>Very off topic: I have seen similar things rather regularily, and I often >>wondered why people like to use cat, when not needed: >> >>wc -l *.c *.h *.cpp >> >>OTOH, why not use >> >>cat *.c *.h *.cpp | cat | cat | wc -l >> >>:-) >> >>BTW. On a German keyboard, that pipe sign is actually too incovinient to use, to >>get ideas, like this. >> >>Cheers, >>Dieter > >Actually, I went into overkill mode and wrote a perl script which ignores >comments and empty lines. Oh well, :) > >By the way what does the second cat in your last example do? > >regards, >--tom \ Not a thing. :) just copies stdin to stdout...
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