What is the general consensus on "Useless use of cat"?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/323060/w...

Question links:
[Wikipedia's article on UUOC]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix...
[The Useless Use of Cat Award]: http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html
[Is it wasteful to call cat?]: https://superuser.com/questions/307650/i...

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