[TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)

[Rob Pike]

I've long been fascinated by the prevalence of

   cat file | process

and think of it as a sort of triumph of the model. Pipes are more natural
than redirection as a human interface.

-rob


On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 11:30 AM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Dec 2020, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> > Wasn't there a version that was
> >
> >       cat whatever ^ wc -l
>
> Sort of pipe-related, but one thing that really gets my goat is the
> inefficient redundancy in "cat file | process" when "process < file" will
> suffice (and I'll bet that I'm not alone).
>
> And yes, "^" preceded "|" for reasons discussed later in this thread.
>
> -- Dave
>
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