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It shouldn't. It's 2017 now, and the speed difference between a "misplaced" cat command is normally negligible. The speed of the terminal user is more important
by noja 9y ago
It shouldn't. It's 2017 now, and the speed difference between a "misplaced" cat command is normally negligible. The speed of the terminal user is more important.
- AstralStorm 9y agoIt is slower to type too. Just write the command with the file name already.
- anc84 9y agoIf you are just doing one line and you write it perfectly, then maybe. For many people cat is simply the start if excessive piping. I like having the filename as far at the beginning as possible so I can Ctrl-W with ease.
- eeZah7Ux 9y agoAlso, it makes it easier to add new commands that are not able to read from file in the existing pipeline.