[ale] Sed/Awk/PERL question

[jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)]

Robert L. Harris wrote:
> cat <file> | sed -e 's/;$//g' > file2


I think this is where someone (not me, never me) makes a football
analogy involving an N-yard penalty for unnecessary use of "cat".

Though to be fair, my response contained an unnecessary use of
copy-a-1.3GB-file, so I'll be quiet now.

-- JK