From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:36:59 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] redirection wildness in v7
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On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Chet Ramey wrote:

>> $ <word | sed 20q
>
> A null command consisting of only a redirection (effectively a no-op).

With the side-effect of opening "word" (which could be a device).

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