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GrumpySloth on May 23, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Useless Use of "dd" (2015)

You can replace "cat file |" with "<file".

jhugo on May 23, 2022 [–]

Well, yes, but then it wouldn't have been a very good demonstration of why the statement "anything after the `cat file |` can't overwrite the file" is incorrect.

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