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PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats

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This article serves as a public service announcement advising developers against the unnecessary use of the 'cat' command when piping files to other utilities like grep or awk. It argues that such usage creates redundant processes and inefficient code.

abuseofcats.com — a public service announcement about cat(1)

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