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I usually use cat, because I often build a pipeline by starting with head filename | ... then just change "head" to "cat" when I get it working, or grep if

by mkl 7y ago

I usually use cat, because I often build a pipeline by starting with head filename | ... then just change "head" to "cat" when I get it working, or grep if I want to check parts of a file, etc.

Izkata 7y ago
Likewise here, it maintains the left-to-right direction and "one operation per | gap |"