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Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net> writes:

> I didn't want to use > cause that's a valid js operator, but I still hit > almost by force of habit.
> tab is truly unused, and it's a single character, but I realized, after I pushed,
> that this can be trouble for those of you who use readline.

It's also not distinct in some speech adapters.  Why not
    > file EXPRESSION
That would only allow filenames without whitespace; no great loss.
It would be as easy to parse, if a little unintuitive.

-- Chris