[comp.lang.perl] filters

allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) (01/05/91)

As quoted from <10895@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> by lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall):
+---------------
| Oh, come on, you guys.  Everybody knows that cat should just be an alias for
|     perl -pe ''
| :-)  :-)  :-)
+---------------

Obviously the unexpected discovery of "s///ee" has driven him off the deep
end....  ;-)  

(For the folks in .programmer:  someone discovered an unexpected feature in
Perl which startled quite a few people, including its author....)

++Brandon
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