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Mostly I just Google the information it tells me, and see if I can find confirmation from sources known to be written by humans, such as official docs or other equally-trustworthy sources.

For example, just today I asked ChatGPT "In UNIX, what is the difference between redirecting with symbols like > and <, versus redirecting with the | symbol?" I had trouble Googling this same question because the characters <, >, and | confused Google, and the first-page search results were all irrelevant.

However, ChatGPT told me that the difference was that < and > were used for "redirection" of input and output into or out of a file, where as the character | was used for piping output into a command. Based on this, I was able to Google "piping vs redirection" and find confirmation from Stack Overflow.



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