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

[Rob Funk]

On Monday, August 29, 2011 02:31:04 PM Rob Funk wrote:
> On Monday, August 29, 2011 02:19:42 PM Rob Stampfli wrote:
> > 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.)

Also, the "<foo" syntax doesn't translate quite as directly to non-local-file 
sources, such as using curl or echo. Or "ssh otherhost cat foo".