Unnecessarily long pipelines (was Re: How do you handle while(1) fork(); ?)

[william E Davidsen]

In article <2358 at root44.co.uk>, gwc at root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) writes:

|> Why is it that people string together lots of "grep" commands in a
|> pipeline, when they could do the same job with a single "sed" or "awk"
|> command?  In this case it's even worse, because "awk" is already in
|> there as well!

  Or egrep, or whatever. Maybe becauses it's easier to type?