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merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
: >>>>> In article <1993Oct6.221646.3864@bvl.pt>, vasco@bvl.pt (Antonio Vasconcelos) writes:
: But why should one use *cat* here?
: 
: Antonio> cat file1 | awk '{print $1}' >x1
: Antonio> cat file2 | awk '{print $1}' >x2
: 
: Sorry.  You struck my "unnecessary use of cat" nerve.
: Get a clue, newbie script writers.  Cat with one parameter is *rarely*
: needed.  For y'all, *never* is closer, but there are a few cases where
: it might come in useful.

Sorry, sorry, sorry... You are 100% right. Awk can read from stdin,
cat is indeed an uneeded command...
I'm not exactlly a newbie script writer, I have a lot of kbytes over
my back, and a lot of uneeded cat calls too... :-(
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