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cbd1984 on June 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: X86 Machine Code Statistics

Interesting how you know so much shell but still uselessly use cat.

bensummers on June 23, 2015 [–]

It reads better than the alternative, which would be to bury the input filename in the middle of that second line.

cbd1984 on June 23, 2015 | [–]

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for example works just as well.

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