On 9/09/2009 10:37 a.m., Andy Linton wrote:

You're all clearly asking 'cat' to do things it wasn't designed for -  

see:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf

If you cat 'cat > cat' you're just going to end up with more cats than
you know what to do with.  And with that kind of recursion more will be
Cat3s than would be statistically probable.

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