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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 19:37:46 +0100
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Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:
> Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> boring babbled:

[...]

>>Eg, this a poor man's implementation of cat:
>>
>>perl -e 'open($fh, $_) and print <$fh> for @ARGV'
>
> Meanwhile in awk: { print }

perl -peZ

It's not only shorter than the awk version but it also works. cat
doesn't abort when some of its arguments don't name existin files.