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[James McPherson - PTS Engineer]

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Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Tao Nelson wrote:
>>Gratuitous use of cat is considered harmful.
> Are you kidding?  Cat is great.  I make sure I use cat every day just for
> my health.  I have a box in Aus which is backed up to CDs (not my first
> choice, see the archives for my first choice :)  Split -b does a great job
> of splitting the dump files for burning to CD (for removal offsite).  Cat
> is the tool of choice for reconstructing the dump files.  Then there was
> the time I fixed a system only with echo & cat...


Sure, but you missed the point. Tao was referring to a previous
post which had

cat file | strings


rather than just


strings file


cheers,
James C. McPherson
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Pacrim PTS Engineer            828 Pacific Highway
                                Gordon NSW
Sun Microsystems Australia     2072






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