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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: iso646.h
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:35:52 -0800
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> On 31/01/2024 15:46, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> On 31.01.2024 15:09, David Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> I would expect that the majority of uses of "cat" are with just one
>>> file,
>> And of course just because of ignorance; the majority of (but not
>> all)
>> uses with just one file are UUOCs.
>
> I regularly see it as more symmetrical and clearer to push data left
> to right.  So I might write "cat infile | grep foo | sort > outfile".
> Of course I could use "<" redirection, but somehow it seems more
> natural to me to have this flow.  I'll use "<" for simpler cases.
>
> But perhaps this is just my habit, and makes little sense to other people.

You can also use:

    < infile grep foo | sort > outfile

Redirections don't have to be written after a command.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */