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file <(echo "abcdefghijk")

It would be really cool if this could print something like "ASCII text", i.e. that file won't just give up and tell me it's a fifo.

Steven Lu
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Then mislead him:

$ echo "abcdefghijk" | file -
/dev/stdin: ASCII text