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by Nate75Sanders 5204 days ago
One useful addition to the section on streams would have been that of process substitution:

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/process-sub.html

This allows you to have more than just the standard streams.

2 comments

It's bash-specific (sh doesn't support it)
It's not bash-specific. Other shells have it.
But not the bourne shell
not POSIX.