4 Dec
2020
4 Dec
'20
3:27 p.m.
Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This has always struck me as particularly elegant in
scripts. Consider:
cat "$@" | whatever
(Or you may prefer `cat $* | whatever`)
Now one's script can take any number of file arguments or stdin, even if
the filter does not.
I think Dan has hit the heart of the matter. People are used to using
cat for multiple files to start pumping data down a pipeline, so they
continue to do so even when there's only one file.
Arnold