Avoid using cat into grep
I have been guilty of doing this myself. Instead of doing cat file1 file2 | grep -i searchTerm, it is better to use grep directly. The result is not only more efficient, but it’s more informative aswell. Here is why I came across a video by [[Luke Smith]], where he explains why you should avoid using cat into grep. This video made me reflect on my own usage of cat , and what it’s really meant for, which is concatenate and write files. ...