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by dbcurtis 3033 days ago
cat contract.txt | grep -i "indemnify" | wc

There's your MVP right there.

Seriously, over time I've come to the conclusion that a lot of the most egregious things put in contracts are around open-ended liabilities and indemnifications. It seems like it would be straight-forward to create a tool that simply scanned for which party has liabilities, and what limits there are on those liabilities. It is not everything, but it would be a good first pass.
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dghf 3033 days ago
> cat contract.txt | grep -i "indemnify" | wc

I hate to be that guy, but you have a Useless Use of Cat[0] there.

[0] http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html#cat

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dbcurtis 3033 days ago
Sure. grep could take the file. I knew that when I wrote the above line. We could have a nice debate about readability and maintainability, compositional design over compact expression, etc. But that's kind of over-kill for a joke, eh?
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