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Are Linux utilities smart when running piped commands?
I was just running a few commands in a terminal and I started wondering, does Unix/Linux take shortcuts when running piped commands?
For example, let's say I have a file with one million lines, the ...
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How to install light-weight vim and to be able to efficiently load files into one instance vim?
On my laptop with Ubuntu I'm able to have just one instance of vim, launched with
vim --servername VIM
After this I'm able to open files from console with
vim --remote-silent filename
I use ...