Re: Bug#155536: ITP: pip -- make any program a filter
Josselin Mouette <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org> writes:
> Sebastien J. Gross a écrit :
> >
> > Description:
> > Wrapper for silly programs that insist on reading from / writing to
> > files instead of using stdin and stdout.
>
> Could you explain what are the advantages of this software over the
> usual /dev/stdin - /dev/stdout solution ?
Yes in some case you need a pipe-like command.
Using std(in|out) does not allow you to pipe any data to a program.
Pip allow users to do that.
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