cat pipe. Was: Sony audio (MSV), and LAME is lame

[Steven W. Orr]

On Wednesday, Oct 3rd 2007 at 23:06 -0000, quoth Shawn K. O'Shea:

=>cat inputfile | lame -r -m m -b 24 -s 22.05 -- > output


I see this all the time and for the life of me I just don't get it.

Why oh why do people say things like 

cat file | lame 

when they can just say 

lame < file

?

No seperate process, no pipe, less load on the computer, less setup, less 
entropy, the universe lasts longer, the needless destruction of electrons 
is averted...


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