@Screwtapello ah!

[neauoire@merveilles.town]

@Screwtapello ah! thanks for the extra detail, I didn't know what part of the system made this facility possible. It's so nice

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@neauoire @Screwtapello

yeah, it's a bashism, and it's “basically” syntax sugar for pipes, but very useful especially when you need more than one (I use it often with vimdiff).

For a single one you can *usually* just use a plain pipe if you need a more POSIX-compliant way of doing things, i.e.

curl whatever | left -

*if* the right-hand-side program supports the common convention of indicating standard input with -. Otherwise, /dev/stdin will usually work just as well.