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[Greg Black]

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On 2003-10-27, Trent WADDINGTON wrote lots of sound stuff:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, James McPherson - PTS Engineer wrote:
> 
> > Sure, but you missed the point. Tao was referring to a previous
> > post which had
> >
> > cat file | strings
> 
> Which is the correct way.
> 
> > rather than just
> >
> > strings file
> 
> Which is an unnecessary feature of strings.

So the "correct" way here is

    strings < file

Cheers, Greg

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