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title: "Shell: named pipes"
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category: CLI
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layout: 2017/sheet
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---
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### Named pipes
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```sh
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diff <(ls ./old) <(ls ./new)
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```
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This creates a virtual file with the contents of the output of `ls ./old`.
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### References
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* [Named pipe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe) _(wikipedia.org)_
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