&gt; except the first one spawns an extra process for no reason.<p>I wonder how many processes I could spin up in the time it would take for me to figure out &quot;hmm, no, invoking that command would use one more process than necessary...&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t give a hoot about that stuff when I&#x27;m doing stuff interactively. e.g. when using `more`.