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by d4mi3n 1331 days ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t POSIX dictate a text stream as STDIN/STDOUT?

If my understanding is correct, this basically rules out any attempts to create richer CLI pipelines that necessitate other kinds of data interchange. IIRC this was one of the motivating factors in the design of PowerShell—though I don’t know PS well enough to say if it’s POSIX complaint or not.