@pheonix@hachyderm.io You get this week's Useless use of cat award. ;-) (sometimes I put the filtering right into the awk skript, but I must admit, most often it's there from the design phase, and stays there for clarity) And I only use #Posix shell features; my scripts need to run on systems without bash. Also a very useful tool: #join Very useful when you'd like to have a database system but can't bother to feed everything into PostgreSQL first. Ok, you leave the one-line pipeline at that point...