This Week's Useless Use of Cat Award goes to... ----------------------------------------------- :: In article <>, wrote: >I'm more than willing to change my programming style/preference, (and my >car and my preference of ice cream) but it would really help if someone >could tell me why the use of 'cat' is bad. Of course, it's only "useless" uses of `cat' that are bad; there are some occasions where you really need `cat', and then it's the best thing to use. It's bad because it makes the system do more work than is necessary. We were comparing these two examples. cat foo |wc -l wc -l References: <86skss$> <> <>