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

[Jim March]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Choprboy <choprboy at dakotacom.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 April 2009 22:30, Claude Rubinson 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!
>
> <Jumps up and down in glee> I caught one, I caught one mom!!!  I knew if I
> dangled that in the water something^H^H^H^H^Hone would bite! ...And they say
> there are no fish in this pond...
>
>
> Adrian

OK...help me out here...why would you give a screwball non-functional command?

Comedy would be an absurdly long screwball command piped through six
or seven things and it still WORKED.

Jim