10 Nov
2017
10 Nov
'17
3:39 a.m.
On 11/9/17 4:36 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Chet Ramey wrote:
With the side-effect of opening "word" (which could be a device).
Quite true. The redirection is the only thing that happens.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
$
<word | sed 20q
A null command consisting of only a redirection (effectively a no-op).