The ` < file` has to appear at/near the end of the line, right? Using cat ha...

morsch on Sept 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day

The ` < file` has to appear at/near the end of the line, right? Using cat has the advantage of being able to read the line from left to right along with the data flow. I often add more piped commands to the end of a line as I refine it, while the source data remains the same. (To be fair, sometimes the opposite is true.)

ephemient on Sept 5, 2012 [–]

Nope,

    <file ./command --args

and even

    ./command <file --args

works fine in Bash and Zsh.