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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: filters
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.014313.28592@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 5 Dec 90 01:43:13 GMT
References: <1990Dec4.103255.14195@dce.ie> <109685@convex.convex.com> <10763:Dec221:21:1590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1990Dec4.105612.14422@dce.ie>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <1990Dec4.105612.14422@dce.ie> ch@dce.ie (Charles Bryant) writes:
>Many cat programs have several options, none of which can really be justified:
>
>	-u (unbuffered). My cat is always unbuffered. dd(1) is for buffering

Sorry, but I find typing 'cat foobar' quite a bit easier than typing
'dd if=foobar of=/dev/tty bs=512'. Strange, I know, but its this little
idiosyncracy of mine.

>	-s (silent).	Just use "cat 2>/dev/null".

Assuming, of course that you're in a shell of some sort.

Dylan.
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