On 11/9/17 4:36 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Chet Ramey wrote:
$
<word | sed 20q
A null command consisting of only a redirection (effectively a no-op).
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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