[wellylug] cat README | more ???

[Phillip Hutchings]

I was about to say that ;)

Same goes for cat <blah> | grep, and really cat | in general. Very few
things can't take a file as an argument these days.

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 11:02:53 +1300, Nick Jensen <nickspoon at gmail.com> wrote:
>  This is just a quick side question to the "Gentoo - how do you
> install it?" thread - Cliff suggested reading the README by: `cat
> README | more`
>  Why would you pipe the output of `cat README` through more, instead
> of just running `more README`? And why use more at all, when you can
> use less?
>  I'm just curious about this, personally I would have run `less README`.
> 
>     Nick


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