Is there a way to have nano to pipe output to another program's input?

Asked Aug 24 '20 at 11:25

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I have a program A that pipes its input to nano this way: program_a | nano -. I want to make edits with nano and pipe it again to another program B, without having nano to write anything on the disk (The processed data is sensitive, and I want it to be only written as encrypted or processed within RAM; program B is actually an encryption program).

In order to achieve my goal, I know of solutions requiring the creation of a tmpfs on the RAM, this I would like to avoid.

Do you have any suggestions?

asked Aug 24 '20 at 11:25

Loutr_

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Does this answer your question? How to invoke vim editor and pipe output to bash. Question is about vim, but vipe will work with any editor set as EDITOR. – pLumo Aug 24 '20 at 14:45
ah no, I see that both nano and vim use a temp file ... – pLumo Aug 24 '20 at 14:49
vipe would actually fit my needs... Where did you read about the use of temporary files by editors though? I know that nano can dump its buffer into .save files when receiving something like a SIGTERM, but I thought it was not doing it everytime. – Loutr_ Aug 29 '20 at 16:08

Is there a way to have nano to pipe output to another program's input?

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