Cat Abuse

...in Unix 8th edition...

...as documented by cat-v...

http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/5/whoami

The irony.

Just one question >>1-san, what is the proper way to print a file stdin?

>>2
a file to stdout?
FTFY

So why did Uriel off himself?

cat file | grep pattern

none of you faggots is going to stop me

>>2
Don't ask me, I abuse cat like it was my child.

>>1
This will make great flamebait.

>>2
cat [file] >/dev/stdin

>>7
lol, thanks. I think we just made another fork bomb.
cat [log|file|program> that never ends] &2>1 /dev/stdin

>>2
Don't ask >>6, I abuse his child like it was a cat.

Not even Uriel claimed cat cannot be used this way. I remember reading one of the original UNIX documents ("UNIX: A Time-sharing Operating System" or something) and it even mentions this. You're allowed to use it for tasks other than concatenating files, you're just not allowed to use it to display non-printing characters because for some reason that belongs in a separate program.

>>10
OP is a /g/eek Squad employee.

>>5
I think I do this because it leaves the pattern on the end of the line, which makes it easier to retrieve the command from the history using the cursor keys and mung it until it works.