• bloor@feddit.org
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    8 hours ago

    cat abuseeee!!

    grep can take a list of files to search in, saves you a process call and some syscalls.

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      3 hours ago

      Or they just love using the pipe operator cause it makes them feel like a real programmer. I honestly am so used to piping to grep I forget you can pass it file paths.