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		chme on Nov 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HandBrake 1.7.0 – The open source video transcoder Named pipes don't work? Or some bash magic: `handbrake-cli -i <(cat video-file.mp4)`? I never used handbrake-cli, only used the gui before, so I have no idea.

linuxdude314 on Nov 19, 2023 [–]

No need for cat…

kevincox on Nov 19, 2023 | | [–]

I think it is needed in bash. In zsh you can do <(<file) but I don't think that redirect without a command works.

chme on Nov 19, 2023 | | [–]

The cat command is meant as a placeholder for whatever other commands are used for printing out a file stream to stdout.

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