zephyr@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.dev · 1 year agoHow do you shell expand your variables and why?lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up162arrow-down1external-linkHow do you shell expand your variables and why?lemmy.worldzephyr@lemmy.world to Programming@programming.dev · 1 year agomessage-square29fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarethingsiplay@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-21 year ago@ilega_dh You don’t need cat in cases when grep "d" alphabet.txt can read from file too. Edit: But obviously your comment was more of a joke to over complicate it. So never mind then.
minus-squaregendulf@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoTo be safe, should probably output grep to a file, then cat that.
minus-squareilega_dh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoAgreed. Everything in Linux is a file so let’s keep it that way.
minus-squareImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 year agodeleted by creator
@ilega_dh You don’t need
cat
in cases whengrep "d" alphabet.txt
can read from file too. Edit: But obviously your comment was more of a joke to over complicate it. So never mind then.To be safe, should probably output grep to a file, then cat that.
Agreed. Everything in Linux is a file so let’s keep it that way.
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