Unix Shell - Re: Useful use of cat

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Re: Useful use of cat

Kevin Collins

2006-01-05, 6:08 pm

In article <z96dnY3d37YLDyHeRVn-jQ@comcast.com>, Henry Townsend wrote:
> Darren Dunham wrote:
>
> You presumably meant to contrast with:
>
> % gzip < <largefile>
>
> as we all know there's a significant difference between "cmd file" and
> "cmd < file".

Actually, I don't think he did, although that will probably also work around
gzip's largefile limitation.

Kevin

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