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That's a classic misuse of cat.

Just use '<'.




Yeah, but to me, this "misuse" actually makes the input and output clearer than using "<" and ">" together. After all, it places input on the left side of the command, and output on the right side.


Except for GNU Parallel --pipe. When you use '<' what you typically mean is '--pipepart -a file'.




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