2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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UUOC
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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Stands for Useless Use of cat ; the reference is to the Unix command cat (1)
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, not the feline animal. As received wisdom on comp.unix.shell observes, The
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purpose of cat is to concatenate (or catenate ) files. If it's only one
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file, concatenating it with nothing at all is a waste of time, and costs you
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a process. Nevertheless one sees people doing
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catfile|some_commandanditsargs... instead of the equivalent and cheaper
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filesome_commandanditsargs... or (equivalently and more classically)
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some_commandanditsargs... file Since 1995, occasional awards for UUOC have
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been given out, usually by Perl luminary Randal L. Schwartz. There is a web
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page devoted to this and other similar awards.
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