@randomgeek pydoc is incomplete, unfortunately. It's pulling from docstrings only, but lots of Python stdlib doc is not in docstrings; it's in the source rST files. e.g. compare `pydoc urllib.parse` with https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.parse.html. What pydoc see is often wholly different (and lesser) documentation.

Perl's got us spoiled, frankly.

Here's an interesting Bash pattern I just used for the first time.

some-command <<<"$(< some/file)" >some/file

It reads all of some/file into memory before writing it to some-command's stdin. This lets some-command's stdout be redirected to some/file without the usual problems of reading/writing from the same file.

#unix #linux #bash