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		plaes on Jan 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop ... You can actually do without cat: grep bar foo \| chess_extract_scores http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix%29#Useless_use_of_c...

theepauk on Jan 19, 2015 [–]

Sure you can, but premature optimization is also a real thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_optimization#When_to_op...

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