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.
It's bash-specific (sh doesn't support it)
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#12One 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.
It's bash-specific (sh doesn't support it)
It's not bash-specific. Other shells have it.
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#14Sort of related: rpl[1] is an often overlooked tool for replacing text across multiple files. Terser than "perl pie" and a few nice features like simulation mode.
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#15Thanks for this, had never heard of csplit. Too bad the OSX version sucks.
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#16So sad that the writer lets himself down in the first line.
What are you referring to?
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#17This used to be a great site (ignore its very un-PC site name):
It seems the site is down.
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#18I once wrote this introduction to UNIX (which is unfortunately not complete, I lost the DocBook sources), that also provides an introduction to text manipulation.