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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unnecessarily long pipelines
Message-ID: <3043@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Jul 90 14:56:56 GMT
References: <price.648165820@chakra> <2358@root44.co.uk>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <2358@root44.co.uk> gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) writes:
>Why is it that people string together lots of "grep" commands in a
>pipeline, when they could do the same job with a single "sed" or "awk"
>command?

Because they can remember how to do it without thinking of course.  Just
like most csh users type "mv fred.c fred.c.old" instead of the shorter
"mv fred.c{,.old}"

-- Richard
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