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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Useless Use Of Regexes
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 04:54:28 -0000 (UTC)
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On 12 Apr 2025 11:23:14 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> Yes. And then, I have to remove "cat". And only then can I write "grep".
> Which is more difficult than just writing "| grep" at the end of the
> line.

Let’s see:
* CTRL/A, DEL, DEL, DEL, “grep” (8 keystrokes)
versus
* “|grep” (5 keystrokes)

That’s 60% more work. I suppose that’s a big chunk out of your working 
day ...

Here’s an even more useless example:

    cat «file» | grep «pattern» | wc -l

versus

    grep -c «pattern» «file»