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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: filters
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.025854.21198@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 5 Jan 91 02:58:54 GMT
References: <1990Dec15.175917.27136@comm.wang.com> <1990Dec20.132240.19103@ibmpcug.co.uk> <10895@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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As quoted from <10895@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> by lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall):
+---------------
| Oh, come on, you guys.  Everybody knows that cat should just be an alias for
|     perl -pe ''
| :-)  :-)  :-)
+---------------

Obviously the unexpected discovery of "s///ee" has driven him off the deep
end....  ;-)  

(For the folks in .programmer:  someone discovered an unexpected feature in
Perl which startled quite a few people, including its author....)

++Brandon
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