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ahh

~$ which cat

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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

I still like doing cat file.txt | grep thing because I often re-run it to find something else like cat file.txt | grep thing2 - and if I do that with grep, the pattern sits awkwardly in the middle instead of at the end

[-] tgt@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

< file.txt grep thing also works.

[-] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

is it more obtuse

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