The "loop and a half"

[Dan Sommers]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 19:14:33 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:

> It all depends on what the command's purpose is for, and how it's
> designed to be chained with other commands (cat for example).

They're almost all designed to be chained with other commands.  Even
diff and ed are designed to work together in a pipe; the output from
"diff -e" can be piped into ed to make ed apply changes to a file.

Dan