• @[email protected]
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    91 month ago

    It’s a command line tool which filters for all lines containing the query. So something like

    cat log.txt | grep Error5

    Would output only lines containing Error5

      • @[email protected]
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        121 month ago

        In the back of my mind I know this is there, but the cat | grep pattern is just muscle memory at this point

        • @expr
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          31 month ago

          Just remember that if you aren’t actually concatenating files, cat is always unnecessary.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 month ago

          I’ve been ‘told off’ so many times by the internet for my cat and grep combos that I still do it, then I remove the cat, it still works, and I feel better. shrug