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Ya,ya. Cat abuse is often mistaken for "I'm using cat as a placeholder for some other more complicated process". Get over it
by elchief 4y ago
Ya,ya. Cat abuse is often mistaken for "I'm using cat as a placeholder for some other more complicated process". Get over it
- topspin 4y agoThere have been times recently when I've used cat in places where an alternative exists just in the hope that it annoys someone indulging this hang-up.
- bravetraveler 4y agopv may fit the bill, I use it to get transfer rates for disk images I'm writing ref: http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml
- kjs3 4y agoIndeed. I'm genuinely baffled that anyone would care enough to mention it given how common an idiom it is. When did this so-called 'cat abuse' rise to the level of 'I must chastise this person for their sin'?
- fragmede 4y agoit's a micro optimization and some people see all of life as an optimization problem.
- kjs3 4y agoInsightful. And rather sad. I suspect there's more than a slice of "old == bad" mixed up in this attitude as well. P.S. - do not search for 'cat abuse' to understand this mentality. Rookie error.
- fragmede 4y agohttps://porkmail.org/era/unix/award https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award is a good reference if you want to read what the heretics believe about cat and kill and wc -l.
- fragmede 4y agoI'll use head instead of cat while testing if my dataset is big, and it's just easier to swap out. it's not cat abuse, it's cat petting