Re: Useless Use Of Regexes

On 12 Apr 2025 11:23:14 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

Yes. And then, I have to remove "cat". And only then can I write "grep".
Which is more difficult than just writing "| grep" at the end of the
line.

Let’s see:
* CTRL/A, DEL, DEL, DEL, “grep” (8 keystrokes)
versus
* “|grep” (5 keystrokes)

That’s 60% more work. I suppose that’s a big chunk out of your working
day ...

Here’s an even more useless example:

    cat «file» | grep «pattern» | wc -l

versus

    grep -c «pattern» «file»