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tannhaeuser on Aug 6, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Seashells – Pipe output from command-line programs...

Piping output from shell into HTTP response bodies is exactly what CGI programming is about. What am I missing that this is considered innovative?

rakoo on Aug 6, 2019 | [–]

In this case you're piping output from shell into HTTP _requests_. It's the mirrored version of CGI.

alexchamberlain on Aug 6, 2019 | [–]

This uses the cloud...

In all seriousness, isn't the use case here more temporary? You're running a script that you want some else to see the output of without the faff of copy & paste to a gist.

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