Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat"

Shlomi Fish writes "O'Reilly is publishing a new book titled 'Mastering cat,' about the UNIX 'cat' command. Here is an interview O'Reilly-Net conducted with the author about it. Read it to see if this book should be part of your bookshelf of technical books."

Comments

Re:Here goes:

[morgan_greywolf]

You should really have RTFA. That's a UUOC. You just completely wasted a process call and unnecessarily wrote to a file:

links2 -dump http://slashdot.org/ | grep $somethingfunny

Of course, if we look at your use of an appending redirection (>>) (assuming humortest.txt already exists and has useful data), then you still unnecessarily wrote to a file:

links2 -dump http://slashdot.org/ | cat humortest.txt - | grep $somethingfunny

Re:Frist Psot?

[fprintf]

Been there, done that. A few years ago I got first post and a +5 (w/o karma bonus) interesting. I don't see it listed on my achievements list, but I was pretty proud of it at the time. I think a few of the following comments even said that it was the first time they had seen such a beast, and this of course was when "first post" was an interesting challenge and something noteworthy to attain. Nowadays, meh!