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		pimlottc 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FracturedJson You can (usually) specify the input file name as “-“ (single hyphen) to read from stdin

mlegendre 5 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

mlegendre 5 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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