[Tfug] Got a text formatting/database question ("bash" it to hell?)

[Jim March]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Claude Rubinson
<rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:10:31PM -0700, Choprboy wrote:
>> cat file.dat |awk -F "," "{print $2}' |grep -e '^170$' |wc -l
>
> My eyes!  My eyes!  Useless use of cat!  The googles...  They do
> nothing!
>
> C.

Heh.  I found myself wondering if it would work, so I tried...nope.
Gives me a new ">" prompt at which point ctrl-c is the only answer?

Jim