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by pimlottc 162 days ago
You can (usually) specify the input file name as “-“ (single hyphen) to read from stdin
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mlegendre 162 days ago
Or you can use `/dev/stdin`, which has the upside of not needing tool support.

I somewhat regularly use this on Linux. I think it also works on OS X

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mlegendre 162 days ago
And conversely, `/dev/stdout` (resp. `/dev/stderr`) is a convenient way to "redirect" output to stdout (resp stderr) instead of a file
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