Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:

Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> boring babbled:

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Eg, this a poor man's implementation of cat:
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perl -e 'open($fh, $_) and print <$fh> for @ARGV'

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Meanwhile in awk: { print }

perl -peZ

It's not only shorter than the awk version but it also works. cat
doesn't abort when some of its arguments don't name existin files.