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bufpipe(1)

NAME

bufpipe - buffer stdin

SYNOPSIS

bufpipe command [args]

DESCRIPTION

bufpipe read its standard input and write it to a temporary file. This temporary file is a regular file and it becomes the standard input for command. This allows to pipe to command that only read via mmap. An example of its use is the following:

$ gcc bufpipe.c -o/dev/stdout | bufpipe readelf -h /dev/stdin
  Entry point address:               0x10f0
  Start of program headers:          64 (bytes into file)
  [...]