Re: open file and command substitution of bash

[alin.s]

The easiest form that I find to open the output is

R=mktemp; tee < <(ls) >${R} && emacs $R




Davis Herring wrote:
> 
>> emacs /dev/fd/5
> 
> You could just do emacs <(ls) -- bash replaces <(ls) with something like
> /dev/fd/63 anyway.
> 
>> However, I suppose that emacs uses pipes for implementing processes... It
>> cannot read its stdin from a pipe and create a buffer with?
> 
> Certainly one could (in C) arrange for Emacs to open a file name and treat
> it as if it were a pipe from a process.  But Emacs doesn't consider that
> the same operation as visiting a file, which is what is requested when you
> use file names as arguments.
> 
> Davis
> 
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