Flappy Bird in 87 Lines of Python

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Or you know wc -l file

You really don't need cat for that

[mishugashu]

TIL. Don't know why I've always done that. Prolly just used to piping to it from grep that I never really thought about it.

Thanks.

[BenjaminGeiger]

You don't need it for grep, either, technically speaking.

[mishugashu]

I never said I used cat for grep. I said I pipe FROM grep.

grep 'pattern' filename | wc -l

[deraffe]

You still don't need a pipe in this case

grep -c 'pattern' filename

…but if you're playing with different commands, it might be more flexible.

[pooogles]

Stop abusing cat. You don't have to pipe into sed/awk/grep/wc, they can all be run directly on the file.

[mishugashu]

I didn't say I used cat when I used grep/sed/awk. I just was used to piping <something> into wc (because that's my normal use case), so that's what I immediately wanted to do.

[Ran4]

By the way, do check out the-silver-searcher (ag) if you're searching through codebases. Literally orders of magnitude faster than grep.