On Mar 19, 2015, at 7:34 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've noticed that quite a lot of "useless use of cat" comes from folks > reaching conceptually for > > <file command ... > > but having issues with the idea of a command starting with a redirection and > rejecting it instead of moving the redirection. Brains are funny things.
For that matter, is there a significant difference between <file $COMMAND $ARGS and $COMMAND $ARGS <file ? I honestly didn't know about & hadn't tried the former until just now. -- Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860) _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
