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oh my god how could I have been doing this for so long and not realize that you can redirect before your binary. I knew cat was an anti-pattern, but I always t
by randusername 7mo ago
oh my god how could I have been doing this for so long and not realize that you can redirect before your binary.
I knew cat was an anti-pattern, but I always thought it was so unreadable to redirect at the end
- attentive 7mo agoit seems smart until you accidently type >input.json and nuke the file
- figmert 7mo agoYou can use sponge for that.
- HappMacDonald 7mo agoThat sounds like a mistake which would be easily to make at the end of the line, unless you are contrasting input stream redirect against cat regardless where it's written on the line?