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Re: Using NSTask and NSPipe to perform a shell script

Subject: Re: Using NSTask and NSPipe to perform a shell script
From: "Jordan Krushen" <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:44:20 -0700

On 9/5/06, David Emme <email@hidden> wrote:

On Sep 5, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Keith Blount wrote:
> cat readme.markdown | md2latex.sh > somefile.tex

Are you sure that you really need the "cat..." step? Often people do
        cat foo | bar >out

when all they really need is
        bar <foo >out


Indeed.  This is known as a Useless Use of Cat.

Other info and examples of UUOCs for the curious:
 http://www.google.com/search?q=useless+use+of+cat

J.
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