[geeks] ksh for loop question

[Gary Nichols]

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On Fri, 10 May 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> 
> 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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