Unnecessarily long pipelines

[Richard Tobin]

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?

Because they can remember how to do it without thinking of course.  Just
like most csh users type "mv fred.c fred.c.old" instead of the shorter
"mv fred.c{,.old}"

-- Richard
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