5 points | by scooterbooper an hour ago ago
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> Since 1995, occasional awards for UUOC have been given out, usually by Perl luminary Randal L. Schwartz
http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/UUOC.html
Admittedly its taken me a long time to remember that the file is the last argument to grep, when so many other commands its the first. I'd guess common abuse is due to being easier to type cat x | than to dig up the man page
> Since 1995, occasional awards for UUOC have been given out, usually by Perl luminary Randal L. Schwartz
http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/UUOC.html
Admittedly its taken me a long time to remember that the file is the last argument to grep, when so many other commands its the first. I'd guess common abuse is due to being easier to type cat x | than to dig up the man page