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Removing redirection operator does not change output. Why?
I saw this usage of redirection somewhere, and thought it was a typo:
grep root < /etc/passwd
But after I run it, I saw that it gives the same output with
grep root /etc/passwd:
$ grep root ...
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Deleting lots of files
I accidentally created 8 million files and every time I'm trying to delete them the server almost dies because of the rm process eating all disk IO (the server is remote without console).
Should ...