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by syspec 2112 days ago
Not to me, and other people who use Ruby sparingly
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I’m not sure. In shell, I think

  makejunk | grep foo | tail -4 > fourthings
is more popular than

  > fourthings makejunk | grep foo | tail -4
Having said that, I don’t understand why you would add this, but then, I don’t understand the popularity of ruby or other languages that think adding alternative ways to do things most of the time is a good thing.
In shell outside of file manipulation,

  fourthings=$(makejunk | grep foo | tail -4)