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On my tests the blunt use of "cat" and pipe runs quicker and is easier to follow in scripts than when some well known applications read the file directly. One such application is "awk".

The UUOC argument makes some sense where a shell read providing direct input to a shell command could replace a "cat" to pipe. It makes no sense when the application is less efficient at reading data than "cat".

Last edited by methyl; 11-29-2009 at 08:37 PM.. Reason: Withdraw Reverse Polish Notation quote because too sarcastic.

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IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1) NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)

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