There are some commands which filter or act on input, and then pass it along as output, I think usually to stdout - but some commands will just take the stdin and do whatever they do with it, and output nothing. I'm most familiar with OS X and so there are two that come to mind immediately are pbcopy and pbpaste- which are means of accessing the system clipboard. Anyhow, I know that if I want to t
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