Similarly I have seen a lot people use cat somefile,txt | grep $SEARCH when you could and should, for a number of reasons, use this grep $SEARCH somefile.txt On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 07:59 -0400, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 07/15 09:15 , Eric Crist wrote: > > I agree with this, though the cat part isn't needed: > > > > sed "s/MD5SUM_GOES_HERE/`md5sum direct.tar.bz2`/g" template.html > output.html > > Thank you for the 'aha!' moment this gave me. One of those things I should > know, but never learned for whatever reason. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120716/27c54492/attachment.html>