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Append same text to many files using cat or echo?
How can I write the same content to many text files by using cat or echo in only one command?
For example I want to write "hello" to file1 and file2. I tried:
echo "hello" >> file1 file2
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Performance difference between stdin and command line argument
For some commands, it is possible to specify certain input as either stdin or a command line argument.
Specifically, suppose command can take stdin input and a filename as command line argument, and ...
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Is 'some_program <some_file' faster than 'cat some_file | some_program'? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I care about unnecessary cats?
Both would be functionally equivalent, but when using cat wouldn't it be slower because you have a process first reading the file ...
