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Re:CLI: Improved by collinmanderson on Saturday September 01, 2018 @08:31AM (#17891537)
Yes, but filenames are not variable names, they're values, and they often break plain text piping
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Re:CLI: Improved by enriquto on Saturday September 01, 2018 @10:02AM (#17891877)
This is not the unix philosophy. Filenames are indeed variable names. The values are the contents of the file.
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