[wellylug] cat README | more ???

[Darryl Hamilton]

Phillip Hutchings wrote:
> 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

I think it comes down to the good old "If it ain't broke..."

Personal preference, old habits, etc

Darryl.