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You can just do
In the back of my mind I know this is there, but the
cat | grep
pattern is just muscle memory at this pointfor me as well.
Just remember that if you aren't actually concatenating files,
cat
is always unnecessary.I've been 'told off' so many times by the internet for my cat and grep combos that I still do it, then I remove the cat, it still works, and I feel better. shrug