Quote Originally Posted by Vaphell View Post
< is better because it is a standard functionality of shell and doesn't require spawning yet another process.
similar case is with touch - people create empty files with touch because they don't know they can use builtin > file for that (with nothing before >).

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People means me. I had no idea that was possible (and more proper - if you want to say that). Thanks for the tip!