how to pipe to wiggle?

[baleti]

with patch I was able to cat temp.patch | patch, but not with wiggle:

temp > cat temp.patch | wiggle --patch --replace
wiggle: -p in merge mode requires exactly one file
temp > wiggle --patch --replace < temp.patch
wiggle: -p in merge mode requires exactly one file
temp > wiggle --patch --replace <(cat temp.patch)
wiggle: Cannot find files to patch: please specify --strip
wiggle: aborting
temp > cat temp.patch | wiggle --patch --replace -
wiggle: cannot open -

are there any workarounds? why it doesn't work?

with zsh you can use substitution like =(cat temp.patch), but not with bash

[reneleonhardt]

You can ask AI, zsh is creating a temp file for you, bash doesn't allow that for security and portability reasons.
So you could use mktemp to do the same manually.

As long as wiggle doesn't support reading from stdin / piping (like you tried with the special file name -), you're on your own 😄