You can keep the order of things even if you want to avoid using cat: < something filter step 1|filter step 2|filter step 3 (just pointing this out in the

You can keep the order of things even if you want to avoid using cat: < something filter step 1|filter step 2|filter step 3 (just pointing this out in the hope it can be of interest to someone reading the thread, I don't personally care that much about UUOC - "useless" is quite subjective, one can still reasonably find the cat version more readable).