[venil]

Its actually part of the POSIX standard that redirections can be put anywhere in the command line, so one can do:

  <file.txt sed 's/some/filter' | other_cmd

on any standard compliantish shell :) (I use zsh, and I know it also works for bash and dash)

[jrm4]

Never knew this. Looking at it now. First impression, I can't tell if this is idiotic or genius :)