if this wanton abuse of cat(1) doesn't stop, we're on track to run out of PIDs by 2031! Just because Unix makes it cheap and easy to fork doesn't mean you have to!
(who gives even a single shit, my god)
(who gives even a single shit, my god)
This adds the joy of doing only what is really needed, without extraneous effort.
Moreover, in this way the start of a pipeline becomes symmetrical to its end, which frequently is an output redirection.
cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3 | ... | cmdn
Edit: for context my home router is a TP Link and for some reason it has IPv6 disabled completely and I'm too scared to enable it.