From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T03:05:04+09:00
Subject: Re: calculations on lists of numbers

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

/ ...

> the main reason that i use cat in real life in situations like this is
> because
> hitting up arrow and changing mean -> sum, for instance, is easier!  ;-)

Yes, same here. Also I think there may be an aesthetic factor at work -- to
many, the pipe format just looks "nicer" than the redirection symbol.
Purely subjective, of course.

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Paul Lutus
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