Bauke Jan Douma <bjdo...@xs4all.nl> writes: > Eric Blake wrote on 11/04/2009 02:59 AM: > >>> $ cat list-of-groups-greetings.txt | tr -d "\r" | sort >> >> Useless use of cat. >> >> tr -d "\r" < list-of-groups-greetings.txt | sort > > Useless maybe, but then again maybe the user won some time > by it. I often wind up with constructs like this. > > Many times, you do 'less /path/to/file', then right after you > may want to run sed or grep on it, in which case I usually > find it quicker to edit the previous command-line as little > as I can, and just attach the grep or sed or whatever-command > to it: 'less /path/to/file | grep regex'.
$ < list-of-groups-greetings.txt tr -d "\r" | sort Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
