[colug-432] Nice Plain Text Columns and Avoiding NIH: expand: not

[Rob Funk]

On Monday, August 29, 2011 02:19:42 PM Rob Stampfli wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:39:20PM -0400, Rob Funk wrote:
> > cat foo |\
> >   filter --somehow |\
> >   another-filter --some-other-way |\
> >   more-filtering --with-more-options
> 
> Why not just:
> 
> <foo \
>   filter --somehow |\
>   another-filter --some-other-way |\
>   more-filtering --with-more-options

Because it doesn't look as clear to me. It looks like it's missing a "|", and 
the "<" points in the wrong direction, away from the pipeline. (Not actually, 
just visually/cognitively.)