On 14 August 2013 02:20, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Ned Batchelder wrote: >> >> Everyone: this program seems to be a direct and misguided transliteration >> from a bash script. > > Not a particularly well-written bash script, either -- > it's full of superfluous uses of 'cat'.
What's wrong with cat? Sure it's superfluous but what makes it *bad*? Personally I often prefer the pipe "cat x | y" form to "x < y"... or "< y x". There seems to be a militant "cat is evil" attitude where I feel it's just normally just people who want to show others they know more bash than they do. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
