Author: Tom Likens
Date: 18:37:28 11/18/02
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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
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