Re:Unix and Flow-Based Programming
by hawski on Saturday December 19, 2015 @12:29PM
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In my opinion it's better to replace `cat FOO | more` with `< FOO more`, because cat is used because people first think that they want to take contents of some file and pass it through some filter.
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I didn't know you could put the redirection first. You learn something new every day. Maybe that form would make it more mnemonic for some people, because it more resembles a pipeline.