[Gllug] bash startup

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Tue Nov 6 09:57:52 UTC 2001


On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, David Damerell yowled:
> Mmmm. As I'm sure you know (but others may not), even if the next
> thing in the pipe doesn't take filenames as arguments, all uses of the
> form;
> 
> cat file | command
> 
> can be replaced with;
> 
> < file | command
> 
> like so.

And that can be replaced with

< file command

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