The fact that you can't pipe into `echo` in shell is weird. `cat` was made for concatenating, not echoing to stdout.
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@yoshuawuyts See, you say that, but it does in fact do that job really well. Perfectly in fact. Seems like an appeal to orthodoxy.
@aredridel it's just that on the one hand I love Unix and what it does, on the other hand it's sometimes hard to learn every single gotcha
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@aredridel e.g. In this case "echo" does not what I expected it to do. I'm not sure how I am appealing to orthodoxy? Wouldn't suggest change -
@yoshuawuyts But to have big ideas of what something does when names are terse ... - 2 more replies
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