C++ has become a scripting language

Re:C++ has become a scripting language by femto on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @08:36AM (#6559269)

Curious, in case I'm missing something. Is what you've written equivalent to the following, or is there a reason for the pipe?

sort in.txt > out.txt

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Re:C++ has become a scripting language by Someone on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @02:38PM (#6561321)

For those that don't know: there is/was an ancient meme called the "Useless Use of Cat Award" about that subject. See for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)#Useless_use_of_cat, http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html, or http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16279/should-i-care-...

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Re:C++ has become a scripting language by MereInterest on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @08:43AM (#6559310)

From the other comment, it is completely equivalent, and I will admit that the pipe is due purely to my ignorance. I usually use `sort` for sorting the output of other commands, and so I forget that it can open a file on its own.

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Re:C++ has become a scripting language by reycharles on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @12:45PM (#6560665)

That usage of cat is "wrong" in general:

    cat file | command > out

is the same as

    command < file > out

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Re:C++ has become a scripting language by rat87 on Thursday October 17, 2013 @03:13AM (#6564037)

Don't worry about the cat it does have a purpose: portability. cat in.txt | sort > out.txt works in powershell(cat is an alias for Get-Content and sort is an alias for sort-object)(without the sort it wouln't work).

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