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[โ€“] biribiri11@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

In the back of my mind I know this is there, but the cat | grep pattern is just muscle memory at this point

[โ€“] allywilson@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

I've been 'told off' so many times by the internet for my cat and grep combos that I still do it, then I remove the cat, it still works, and I feel better. shrug

[โ€“] expr@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Just remember that if you aren't actually concatenating files, cat is always unnecessary.

[โ€“] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

for me as well.