It’s been nearly 20 years since I first came across the Useless Use of Cat (UUOC) awards. Unix notable and Perl disciple Randall Schwartz had begun handing out these embarrassing awards around 1995 to ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>A pipe is an interprocess communication mechanism available on both Windows and Linux (and UNIX). Pipes originally ...