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It might not miss the point, if the command sample is giving more complicated demonstration than it actually is, almost like doing artificially long command to
by nicce 5y ago
It might not miss the point, if the command sample is giving more complicated demonstration than it actually is, almost like doing artificially long command to demonstrate unix-magic, to get more audience.
Anti-patterns are bad, because it usually means that sample command might work in this case, but not in other environments or other use-cases. Someone who is seeing these commands first time, has no idea about that. And this post is meant for beginners.
- jrm4 5y agoI don't think it's more complicated. Most of the time I see people doing "corrections" on the so-called proper way to use Unix tools, they're favoring conciseness (sure, whatever) over intuitiveness. I uselessly use "cat" ALL THE TIME, because the Unix pipe metaphor is absolutely intuitively excellent. I know that I'm starting at the beginning with pipe and shoving data through, and I have a good idea about each step.