On 16/02/2010, at 10:49 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > The LHS of < is a command, the RHS is the name of the file to be read. > After that, you can have further redirections, a command separator > (semicolon, single or double ampersand, single or double pipe etc.), or, > depending on context, various other stuff such as a paren, bracket, > backquote etc.
A redirection doesn't terminate the argument list. For example: echo a b < /dev/null c d Produces: a b c d And: < /etc/passwd cat Will emit /etc/passwd to stdout. Regards, Jan Mikkelsen _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"