Bug 67019 – Power Management guide minor misuse of cat/grep

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description [e-mail] 2004-10-10 15:31:12 UTC]

More than one guide uses this pattern:
'cat foo | grep bar;'
when 
'grep bar foo;'
would probably be a slightly better choice.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




Sorry to be so anal, but Gentoo teaches so many *n?x users their practices, I
felt that I should at least bring it up.

[Comment 1 [e-mail] 2004-10-10 15:33:29 UTC]

sorry, forgot to mention that one example of what I'm talking about is 

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml

Code Listing 3.1
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cpu MHz"

could be

grep "cpu MHz" /proc/cpuinfo

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-10-10 17:51:46 UTC]

there were three occurences of that, fixed them all

thanks :)