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Re:Bash process substitution by denisw on Sunday February 08, 2015 @02:58PM (#9018300)
A good use case is to redirect output into a file you only can modify with sudo. Trying to do it like this doesn't work:

  sudo echo "fs.inotify.max_user_watches=1000000" > /etc/sysctl.conf
as the redirection happens within the shell, thus without root permissions. However, the following does work:

  echo "fs.inotify.max_user_watches=1000000" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.conf
as the writing is done by the elevated tee process.
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Re:Bash process substitution by derefr on Sunday February 08, 2015 @04:37PM (#9018678)
That seems like an anti-unixism (operating with multiple EUIDs in a single process group), though I'm not too sure what the equivalent unixism would be—maybe something with a daemon and a spool directory? Or a user-writable FIFO, redirected to the correct file by the elevated user in a separate command?
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