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by gregsadetsky • 4 days ago

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gnabgib• 4 days ago

(2000) Some discussion in 2020 (31 points, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23341711

cwillu• 3 days ago

[0]: > > Did running a ‘cat’ really take more time in '95 than fiddling around the ‘<file’?

It does now for a sufficiently large file. And it's even more extreme when the recipient can do things with a file that it can't do with a pipe.

Processes doing things differently with a file than they would with a pipe is one of the reasons why I default to `cat foo | …`

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23344655

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