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		chousuke on May 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Redirecting Stdio is Hard I'm not sure if this is POSIX, but if you program accepts positional arguments, in bash you can do eg.: diff <(somecommand) <(someothercommand) and the shell will replace these with /dev/fd/<n>, allowing you to also accept standard input without relying on hardcoded file descriptors.

frou_dh on May 25, 2015 [–]

Cool tip. You're right though, bash in /bin/sh mode doesn't have that feature.

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