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jmholla on April 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your pe...

I use cat like this all the time. It means I can easily change whatever program I'm using to interact with the program (e.g. switching `tr` to `sed`).

GrumpySloth on April 14, 2022 [–]

You can replace "cat /usr/share/dict |" in that invokation with "</usr/share/dict" and it will be equally easy to switch between tr and sed. Yes, you can put that redirection at the start, not just at the end of a command line. Although I admit I still haven't got used to doing it.

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