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Please dont take this seriously guys its just a dumb meme I haven't written a single line of code in half of these languages

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you're catting a file into a grep, you can go.

[–] renzev 7 points 8 months ago

I mean good point, but if I'm just using bash as a shell and not writing a script, I'm probably first previewing the contents of a file with cat anyway, and recalling the last command and appending a | grep <pattern> to it is less keystrokes than re-writing the last command into grep <pattern> <file>. Especially if you're playing around with the pattern and trying to get it right, it's nice to have the pattern at the end of the line.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

If you're piping any of those commands to or from awk, you can also go.