On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:31:46AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > jude[~]$ lsblk -n < /usr/bin/sort > sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk > ??????sda1 8:1 0 111.8G 0 part / > ??????sda2 8:2 0 32.5M 0 part [SWAP] > sdb 8:16 0 55.9G 0 disk > ??????sdb1 8:17 0 55G 0 part > sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
root@wooledg:/home/wooledg# lsblk -n </dev/null sda 8:0 0 238.5G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 300M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 46.6G 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 2.8G 0 part /boot ├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part ├─sda5 8:5 0 7.5G 0 part [SWAP] └─sda6 8:6 0 181.4G 0 part / sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom root@wooledg:/home/wooledg# lsblk -n </bin/dash sda 8:0 0 238.5G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 300M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 46.6G 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 2.8G 0 part /boot ├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part ├─sda5 8:5 0 7.5G 0 part [SWAP] └─sda6 8:6 0 181.4G 0 part / sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom Redirecting stdin from /usr/bin/sort only "works" because lsblk doesn't actually read stdin at all. It is a preposterously silly thing to do.
