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Process substitution
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process_substitution.sh
# Apart from simplicity, another advantage of using process
# substitution is Bash will automatically parallelize your tasks.
diff <(curl http://somesite/file1) <(curl http://somesite/file2)
# Where some-command accepts a filename (or multiple filenames)
# as arguments, and another-command writes output to stdout.
some-command <(another-command)
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