> Therefore every time you use it to spool one file into a pipeline, that is technically an abuse! Since everything's a file* in UNIX (and ilk,) it's actually

> Therefore every time you use it to spool one file into a pipeline, that is technically an abuse! Since everything's a file* in UNIX (and ilk,) it's actually not an abuse. * Pedantic variations such as "everything's a bytestream" or "everything's a file descriptor" notwithstanding.