Yeah sure but it breaks the flow that makes bash pipelines so fun: - arrow up - append a stage to the pipeline - repeat until output is as desired If you're

Yeah sure but it breaks the flow that makes bash pipelines so fun: - arrow up - append a stage to the pipeline - repeat until output is as desired If you're gonna write to some named location and later read from it you're drifting towards a different mode of usage where you might as well write a python script.