How can I pipe stdout to another program? I'm trying to setup a linter for my code and I only want to lint the coffeescript files that have changed in the current branch. So, I generate the list of files using `git`: git diff --name-only develop | grep coffee$ That gives me a nice list of the files I'd like to process but I can't remember how to pipe this to the linting program to actually do the work. Basically I'd like something similar to `find`'s `-exec`: find . -name \*.coffee -exec ./node_modules/.bin/coffeelint '{}' \; Thanks!

`xargs` is the unix utility I was looking for. From the man page:

>
> The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline and end-of-file delimited strings from the standard input and executes utility with the strings as arguments.
>
> Any arguments specified on the command line are given to utility upon each invocation, followed by some number of the arguments read from the standard input
> of xargs. The utility is repeatedly executed until standard input is exhausted.
>

So, the solution to my original question is:


git diff --diff-filter=M --name-only develop | grep coffee$ | xargs ./node_modules/.bin/coffeelint