Don't worry about the cat it does have a purpose: portability. cat in.txt | sort > out.txt works in powershell(cat is an alias for Get-Content and sort is a

Don't worry about the cat it does have a purpose: portability. cat in.txt | sort > out.txt works in powershell(cat is an alias for Get-Content and sort is an alias for sort-object)(without the sort it wouln't work).