On Dec 3, 2020, at 4:29 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020, Larry McVoy wrote:
Wasn't there a version that was
cat whatever ^ wc -l
Sort of pipe-related, but one thing that really gets my goat is the inefficient
redundancy in "cat file | process" when "process < file" will
suffice (and I'll bet that I'm not alone).
Checking command history in zsh:
$ h 1-|wc -l; h 1-|grep '<' | wc -l; h 1-|grep '>' | wc -l; h
1-|grep '|'|wc -l
10009
125
225
878
So it appears I used < ~1%, > ~2% and | ~9% of the command lines!
I bet others will something similar.