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Moving out of the world of "applications" into shell commands, we're gonna need a new shell that understands that `wget -o myfile https://example.com` needs to be handed a capability to write data, or we need change our habits a lot into always shuffling everything over pipes or such. In either scenario, if you want that level of granularity, I don't think UNIX will survive as we remember it.

(More likely path for now: start a new sandbox, run things in it, put result files in an "outbox", quit sandbox, consume files from outbox. Also not very convenient with current tools.)



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