Stop Cat Abuse Command Meme

STOP CAT ABUSE! grep "foo" "bar.txt" Not cat "bar.txt" | grep "foo"

A white cat silhouette appears above a shell command comparison. The joke is that piping cat into grep is humorously framed as “cat abuse,” while grep can search the file directly; it is shared as a reaction by programmers who dislike unnecessary use of cat.

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