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		salgernon on Jan 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop ... The advantage to using "cat foo \| grep pattern" is that it is trivial to ^p and edit the pattern before adding the next pipeline sequence.

philsnow on Jan 19, 2015 [–]

fwiw

    $ <filename grep <pattern>

no shell I'm aware of restricts you to placing redirections at the end, you can throw them on the beginning no problem.

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