--- John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au> wrote:
> 1. Because it's a useful working example, unlike many others
Oh, wow.
> cat /etc/passwd | awk "/$USER/ {print \$0}"
>
> Of course, the awk program could be quite a deal more complicate than
> that.
So? That's still not a valid argument from [1]:
awk -F: '/$user/ {print $2}' ./filename
-- Thomas Adam
[1] No, I don't want an obscure example, nor do I care. My point here is
that the "Useless use of Cat" scenario still applies when a program can
accept files.
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