is also a query on the `/var/log/syslog` "database".
What would be really cool is a RDBMS where the single pieces of data in the cells are related to each other. For example the user IDs in the authentication log could be matched with the IDs present in the request log.
because invariably you're going to want to recall this command from history and insert "grep -v HostnameIDontCareAbout" between the cat and the grep. or you're going to want to replace "grep -i 'problem'" with "awk '/problem/ { print $3 }". or you're going to want to do both.
people whine about 'useless use of cat' like it's still 1982, but the fact is that it's convenient for iterative development of a pipeline in situ and it costs nothing.
What would be really cool is a RDBMS where the single pieces of data in the cells are related to each other. For example the user IDs in the authentication log could be matched with the IDs present in the request log.