Stop Piping Cats
This is my least-favorite Internet meme.  People "pipe cats" because they want the entire pipeline to read left-to-right, like:<p><pre><code>   cat file | xargs foo | grep bar | sort | wc -l
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It just <i>looks nicer</i> than:<p><pre><code>   < file xargs foo | grep bar ...</code></pre>