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/dev/fdpaths. On (most) Linux systems, they’re special files that allow access to the file descriptors of the current process in the context they are accessed from. Not sure about the first example, but the second one works because the shell opens the fd for redirection before running the redirected command, and binds that to the requested fd in the command, which means that the shell’s fd 0 is being bound to fd 3 of the pipeline in the second example./dev/fd/0has nothing to do with it whatsoever, it will work fine with the original awk even if/dev/fd/0was opened by awk:echo hello | original-awk '!length{exit(0)} {print; print substr($0,2) >"/dev/fd/0"; fflush()}'. In that example, I had to do the extra redirection for that silly example because GNU awk (gawk) has a kludge which handles some paths (like/dev/fd/...) internally, instead of passing them to the OS, even on OSs which support such paths.