[CLUE-Tech] Some CLI examples for new people

Keith Hellman khellman at mcprogramming.com
Thu Nov 6 10:47:16 MST 2003


On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:46:45AM -0700, Kirk Rafferty wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:24:49AM -0600, Jay Seven Ess wrote:
> > 
> > 	$ cat myfile.txt | sort | uniq | wc -l
> 
> Useless use of cat. (IBM's fault, not Jay's :)  Should be:
> 
Agreed, but in the context of *teaching* the power of pipelines, it may
be easier for the student to grok.

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