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by chungy 1189 days ago
> Honestly I don't think that in 15+ years I ever saw that in the wild in any shell script

I've done it in shell scripts, very rarely interactively. In scripts, it sometimes just looks better defining that part first.

Wait until you see the redirect in the middle of program arguments. That's where it gets confusing. At least the redirect at the very beginning or very end of the line is easy. :)