pipe/redirect dumb question

[Bill Mullen]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Price, Erik wrote:

> Is there a difference between piping something into another utility and
> using the "<" redirection operator to send data to it?

As I understand it, piping ("|") redirects the standard output of one app
into the standard input of another app; the "<" operator is for using a
/file/ as the input for the app (it reads the file into the app's STDIN).

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