On: Useful Uses of cat

[svilen_dobrev]

well, whole thing can be written in the perl -ne ...

but that absolutely kills modularity / composability

so yes, "cat xyz" plays a source - and can be replaced with another source - without touching all other stuff.

[hk__2 → svilen_dobrev]

> so yes, "cat xyz" plays a source - and can be replaced with another source - without touching all other stuff.

This. I often have to read logs and being able to apply the same oneliner on older logs just by adding a "z" in front of "cat" to read .log.gz instead of .log files is extremely useful.

[kqr → hk__2]

Good point! I often experiment with cat response.json and then replace cat with curl once I'm happy.