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From: leo@ehviea.ine.philips.nl (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unnecessarily long pipelines
Message-ID: <836@ehviea.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 21 Jul 90 19:44:18 GMT
References: <price.648165820@chakra> <2358@root44.co.uk> <3043@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: leo@ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E Eindhoven
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In article <3043@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
|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}"

Yup, especially if your csh supports filename completion (this also
allows you to check whether there's already a *.old file without
retyping the command).

    Leo.