In exercise 5, doing cat < lakes.txt and doing cat lakes.txt do the same thing.
am I missing something here, or are they meant to do the same thing?
In exercise 5, doing cat < lakes.txt and doing cat lakes.txt do the same thing.
am I missing something here, or are they meant to do the same thing?
From the man page:
NAME
cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output
SYNOPSIS
cat [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Concatenate FILE(s) to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
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