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

[Choprboy]

On Wednesday 15 April 2009 00:10, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:10:48PM -0700, Jim March wrote:
[snip]
> > OK...help me out here...why would you give a screwball non-functional
> > command?
>
> You might have misunderstood.  "Useless use of cat" is an old Unix
> joke.  See http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html
>

Yes, see my previous reply Jim. The command given was intended to be fully 
functional.... just had a typo in it. Clause was complaining about 
the 'useless' use of cat as a file redirection to stdin, when you can just do 
it directly with '<'. 

Adrian