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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: filters
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Date: 3 Jan 91 01:36:21 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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Oh, come on, you guys.  Everybody knows that cat should just be an alias for

    perl -pe ''

:-)  :-)  :-)

I will admit, however, that it does have a few more options than the
standard cat program...

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov