ZSH party tricks

Every single person here has used the $(find ~) and `which sbcl` syntax to expand command output as an argument to another command, but a shitload of people don't know that you can write =(foo) instead to pipe the output to a temp file. This is great when you want to edit the output of a command somehow but you don't need to save it. For example:

[Code/Other]% ls
APL    Cobol    Glasses    MIPS    VHDL
[Code/Other]% ed =(man ed)
26242
1,10p

ED(1)                     BSD General Commands Manual                    ED(1)

NAME
     ed, red -- text editor

SYNOPSIS
     ed [-] [-sx] [-p string] [file]
     red [-] [-sx] [-p string] [file]

2p
ED(1)                     BSD General Commands Manual                    ED(1)
2s/  BSD/Linux/
2p
ED(1)                   Linux General Commands Manual                    ED(1)
w
26242
q
[Code/Other]% ls
APL    Cobol    Glasses    MIPS    VHDL
[Code/Other]%

If you only need the same behavior as a pipe (|), you can have the shell send it to a FIFO node on the filesystem by writing <(foo) instead of =(foo). I think it's the other way around in Bash.

I'm trolling you all by posting actual stuff instead of serious discussions about Zionism. I have every expectation it will work and be amazing. Seriously fuck you guys.

>>3
I'm glad vendors are doing this. Maybe by 2020 we'll view `that old GNU thing' as a small hiccup in the everlasting glory of UNIX.