cat pipe. Was: Sony audio (MSV), and LAME is lame

[Tom Buskey]

On 10/4/07, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
>
>
> Why oh why do people say things like
>
> cat file | lame
>
> when they can just say
>
> lame < file
>
> ?
>
> No seperate process, no pipe, less load on the computer, less setup, less
> entropy, the universe lasts longer, the needless destruction of electrons
> is averted...


Prototyping:

$ cat file | egrep 'xyzzy'
nope....
^p ^b |plover
$ cat file | egrep 'xyzzyz|plover'
keep repeating until the regex is finished...

Then put it in a script with < syntax.
Of course, with anything modern over 1GHz, you probably won't see much of a
difference in speed.  Yes, I've used systems where it was very noticable.
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