In bash, I usually do grep -f <(command) ... (I pick grep just for example) to mimic a file input.
What is the equivalent in fish shell? I cannot find it in the documentation.
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The <() and >() constructs are known as "process substitution". I don't use fish, but according to its documentation, it doesn't directly support this:
Subshells, command substitution and process substitution are strongly related. fish only supports command substitution, the others can be achieved either using a block or the psub shellscript function.
Indeed, psub seems to be what you want:
## bash
$ seq 10 | grep -f <(seq 4 5)
4
5
## fish
~> seq 10 | grep -f (seq 4 5 | psub)
4
5
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3fish currently has no equivalent to
>()output process substitution. Commented Sep 9, 2020 at 15:45 -
Also note that
fish'spsubuses a temporary file, so it's closer tozsh's=(...)form of process substitution than<(...). It has apsub --fifo, but is severely broken and cannot really be fixed (and still waits for the psub'ed command to finish for the(...)to expand which means it's still really not an IPC mechanism like ksh/bash/zsh's<(...)). Commented Sep 9, 2020 at 16:01 -
1Here, one can use
command | grep -f - ...in any shell. Commented Sep 9, 2020 at 16:02 -
2Right, the value of process substitution is when you need to pass multiple streams of content to a process. E.g.
diff -u <(sort file1) <(sort file2)Commented Dec 14, 2020 at 23:24