Quoting Manav Rathi, On the useful use of cat, 2024

Shell pipelines are not things of static beauty, they are interactive dialogs with the UNIX shell, chatting with it to come up [with] ad-hoc ways of gluing together tools to the get at the bespoke outcomes we want.
— Manav Rathi, On the useful use of cat, 2024

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8:27am on November 1, 2024 from Istanbul, Turkey


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