First off, stop using cat, use something modern. I recommend redpanda, rp, but I'm biased since I'm the author. Anyway, the reason I use useless cat is because

First off, stop using cat, use something modern. I recommend redpanda, rp, but I'm biased since I'm the author. Anyway, the reason I use useless cat is because when I'm working with large files, it starts with head, not cat, or tail, and then only after I've built the pipeline do I use cat to process the whole file.