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Really useful vim tricks you've probably never seen - Bread on Penguins (www.youtube.com)
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[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Exactly. Saw a thumbnail of a video on YouTube the other day: "ls -l >(cat)" (something to that effect) accompanied by something like "Insane Bash tricks you never know!" I never clicked on that video. The command looked intrigued, but I don't want to spend ten minutes watching a video to know that.

Edit: It looks like it's the same person.

[-] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

I saw like the first couple minutes of that video, but if I recall correctly the <(thing) bit creates a temporary file in /proc so you can use it right away with your command, in the example you gave, with ls

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