Am I not seeing the Error?

[Joshua Landau]

On 14 August 2013 02:20, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Ned Batchelder wrote:
>>
>> Everyone: this program seems to be a direct and misguided transliteration
>> from a bash script.
>
> Not a particularly well-written bash script, either --
> it's full of superfluous uses of 'cat'.

What's wrong with cat? Sure it's superfluous but what makes it *bad*?
Personally I often prefer the pipe "cat x | y" form to "x < y"... or
"< y x".

There seems to be a militant "cat is evil" attitude where I feel it's
just normally just people who want to show others they know more bash
than they do.