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ScatteredThoughts
ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
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Why do some people do the following in a linux shell?

cat foo.txt | awk '{print $1}'


When you can just do...

awk '{print $1}' foo.txt


Yeah, silly, but it always irks me for some reason. Anyone else have similar things which bug them? :)

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  • oOMusicBabii
    oOMusicBabii Posts: 494
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    Coding irks...I hate hate hate badly formatted epub files and have probably spent more time reformatting them than actually reading them on my Kobo.

    And other irk would have to be terrible or lack of metadata in music files.
  • tageekly
    tageekly Posts: 3,755 Member
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    When people use a "+" to start their Excel formulas rather than an "=".

    Don't know why it bugs me, but it does.

    I could go on for hours actually about how people write their Excel formulas that bug me... :grumble:
  • tageekly
    tageekly Posts: 3,755 Member
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    Coding irks...I hate hate hate badly formatted epub files and have probably spent more time reformatting them than actually reading them on my Kobo.

    And other irk would have to be terrible or lack of metadata in music files.

    And a huge YES on the no metadata on music files. What's up with that?!

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