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by Leace 2707 days ago
I actually think that cat makes it more obvious what's happening in some cases.

I had recently built a set of tools used primarily via pipes: (tool-a | tool-b | tool-c) and it looks clearer when I mock (for testing) one command (cat results | tool-b | tool-c) instead of re-flowing it just to avoid cat and use direct files.