> From: merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
>
> Marcel> cat <file> | tr ' ' \\12 |  sort | uniq | wc
>
> Which of course would be a "useless use of cat"...

:-)

True, but I don't really like:  tr < <inputfile> ..., though I do  
use it quite often...

Marcel