don't use cat! (intermediate) anthony explains

today I talk about the `cat` command -- and that it's almost always unnecessary!
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[@charles85430]

To keep the intuitive order of the pipeline, you can do

[@Tegatreides]

hi anthony, new subscriber here. I'm gonna deep dive into your videos. a question, i watched the xargs video and then thisbone, i noticed you are not using the split keyboard anymode, I'm thinking of getting a splot jeyboard myself, any reason why you don't use it anymore, thank you

[@anthonywritescode]

I switch, there's a channel point redeem on stream

[@filthyE]

I'm on a Mac, but I was wondering how you got your 'grep' to highlight the parts that matched in red. Is that a config option? Or is that the default for GNU flavor of grep?
The default grep on my Mac finds the matches, but doesn't highlight the specific matched letters.
Anyway, awesome video. Very useful.

[@anthonywritescode]

I have `alias grep='grep --color=auto'`. I don't remember if that's available in the bsd flavor but you can usually `brew install` the gnu flavor

[@filthyE]

@@anthonywritescode cool thanks! Didn’t know about this grep flag but I’m going to use it from now on. Appreciate it

[@sillybuttons925]

Love the thumbnail!

[@WojtekBaginski]

Thanks for the advice, I will use cat < file from now on ;)

[@alice-smith]

Hey Anthony! What's the

[@anthonywritescode]

ua-cam.com/video/Xf_82stIbB8/v-deo.html here's a video I made about it!

[@alice-smith]

@@anthonywritescode thank you :^)

[@pdecker]

Isn't that less than a "redirect" rather than "pipe"?

[@FabianBarajas]

Don't forget the heredoc use case for cat.

[@forsee2328]

I will still use cat ! !1!

[@npiazzesi]

I laughed way too much at the thumbnail lmfao

[@johnmcway6120]

First