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Re^3: cut vs split (suggestions)
by Mabooka-Mabooka (Sexton) on Apr 17, 2005 at 23:09 UTC
    LOL:-). Thanks for the article: haven't seen it.

    Actually, the main purpose of cat for me is not to memorize all keys of grep. E.g: 
    Mabooka % grep -w awk *awk* | sort | uniq | wc -l
     10
Mabooka % cat *awk* | grep -w awk | sort | uniq | wc -l
      8
Mabooka %

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    It's also good for the prev. command reuse. As for the performance implication: it's minimal (smb. has to do disk i/o anyway).
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