Process Substitution
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What is Process Substitution?
Process substitution allows you to treat the output of a process as if it were a file. It achieves this by creating a temporary file (or using a pipe in some systems) and connecting the standard output of a command to it. This temporary file's name is then substituted into the command line, allowing commands that expect file arguments to read the output of another command. This is particularly useful for commands that require multiple file inputs or when you want to compare the output of two different commands.
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Process Substitution: common questions
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Is this Process Substitution tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 141 of 166 in the free Shell / Bash roadmap, in stage 30, Package Management. If you are new to Shell / Bash, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.