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How to edit data inside a pipe? — First published in fullweb.io issue #97
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How to edit data inside a pipe?

Recommended by Fabien Loudet, Senior SysOps at Rosetta Stone

The vipe program from the moreutils package allows to "insert a text editor into a pipe". That is, run your EDITOR in the middle of a unix pipeline and edit the data that is piped.

command1 | vipe | command2

This is useful when installing softwares using the curl ... | sh method, to make sure the installation script won't do anything harmful to your system.

If you're using Vim, and want to abort piping to the second command, exit with :cq (quit Vim with a non-zero exit code).

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