[wellylug] cat README | more ???

Enkidu enkidu at cliffp.com
Wed Nov 3 11:23:36 NZDT 2004


The only absolutely must-have reason is if you need to use the
parameters to cat.

Cheers,

Cliff

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 11:08:04 +1300, you 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
>
>
>-- 
>Phillip Hutchings
>http://www.sitharus.com/
>sitharus at gmail.com / sitharus at sitharus.com




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