I tend to agree with this sentiment but this year I came across two situations where the use of cat is actually harmful and not just useless: https://github.com

I tend to agree with this sentiment but this year I came across two situations where the use of cat is actually harmful and not just useless: https://github.com/jonjohnsonjr/til/blob/main/post/readat.md#harmful-use-of-cat https://github.com/jonjohnsonjr/til/blob/main/post/readat.md... I still instinctively start my pipelines with cat half the time, but now I have complicated feelings about it.