On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:12:40AM +0100, Didi wrote:
I am aware of the extra process. I decided to go for the cat way because of readable (KISS). The '<' redirect is often confusing, for many people, especially if the command is built into a script.
Then they probably shouldn't be programming production shell scripts. That said, you can move things around to make it more obvious at first glance that it's an input:
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