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[–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

i was doing cat ~/.bash_history | grep thing which is stupid so i started doing grep "thing" ~/.bash_history

now you're telling me i should do history | grep thing

i can't win

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Some would call the former command cat abuse.

    In short, unless you want the contents of a file printed to stdout (or multiple files concatenated), the command can probably be written without cat, instead using the filename as an argument (grep pattern file) or IO redirection (cmd < file).

    Stylistics and readability are another thing though.

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