[geeks] ksh for loop question

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, May 10, 2002 at 19:40:47 (+0200), Jochen Kunz wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] ksh for loop question
>
> On 2002.05.10 17:54 Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> > for files in `cat file_list.txt`; do
> >   wget "http://www.server.com/$files"
> > done
> One file per line? 
> if [ x$ANSWER = "xYES" ] ; then
> 	cat file_list.txt | while read a ; do wget "$a" ; done
> fi

Once again someone uses an extra 'cat' process!  (and an extra test too!)

Sometimes I wonder if maybe 'cat' should never have been implemented.
It would be just as easy to replace its true purpose with an "append"
option to 'dd'.  Then all you budding shell programmers would be forced
to learn to do things correctly.  :-)

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