@majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 8 months agoHow dare you use a text editor because it's easy to uselemmy.fosshost.comimagemessage-square329fedilinkarrow-up1863arrow-down159
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minus-square@datelmd5sum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink7•8 months agocat pipeing is safer though. foobar > file and your file is gone.
minus-square@wise_pancake@lemmy.calinkfedilink2•8 months agoYou can always alias > to < in your shell.
minus-square@Trail@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•8 months agoHuh does that actually work? Don’t have a system handy to try it out.
minus-square@lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink4•8 months ago storage/documents/programs ro > echo puts "hello world" > main.rb storage/documents/programs ro via rb > ls c js main.rb python storage/documents/programs ro via rb > < main.rb grep hello puts hello world storage/documents/programs ro via rb >
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoI think so! I think it’s something like < file works anywhere in the line, not just the end. There may be some specifics about no space when it is the front but I don’t remember lol.
cat pipeing is safer though.
foobar > file and your file is gone.
You can always alias
>to<in your shell.Get out!
<file foobarHuh does that actually work? Don’t have a system handy to try it out.
storage/documents/programs ro > echo puts "hello world" > main.rb storage/documents/programs ro via rb > ls c js main.rb python storage/documents/programs ro via rb > < main.rb grep hello puts hello world storage/documents/programs ro via rb >I think so! I think it’s something like
< fileworks anywhere in the line, not just the end. There may be some specifics about no space when it is the front but I don’t remember lol.