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Re: Am I not seeing the Error?

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From Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws>
Date 2013-08-14 07:59 +0100
Subject Re: Am I not seeing the Error?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On 14 August 2013 02:20, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Ned Batchelder wrote:
>>
>> Everyone: this program seems to be a direct and misguided transliteration
>> from a bash script.
>
> Not a particularly well-written bash script, either --
> it's full of superfluous uses of 'cat'.

What's wrong with cat? Sure it's superfluous but what makes it *bad*?
Personally I often prefer the pipe "cat x | y" form to "x < y"... or
"< y x".

There seems to be a militant "cat is evil" attitude where I feel it's
just normally just people who want to show others they know more bash
than they do.

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Am I not seeing the Error? Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-08-10 22:19 -0400
  Re: Am I not seeing the Error? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-08-12 14:47 +0000
  Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 20:28 +0000
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-13 21:16 +0000
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-08-14 00:44 +0100
    Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-08-13 20:00 -0400
      Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-08-14 13:20 +1200
        Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-14 07:59 +0100
        Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-14 13:07 +0100
          Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-14 08:39 -0400
        Re: Am I not seeing the Error? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-14 13:34 +0100

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