[COFF] On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sun, 12 May 2024, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

> As an example of pushing the limit of Unix pipes, I found this awkward 
> to read, e.g. the noise of the redundant backslash after an end-of-line 
> pipe.

Y'know, I've been writing "| \" for donkeys' (well, "^ \" early in the 
game), and I never knew...

I suppose I could write a Perl script to modify them.

-- Dave