Redirect outputs with subshell

Today I learned how to use a Subshell to redirect multiple outputs as a single one. This way I can run a bunch of commands and unify all the results as it was a single command.

(git diff --name-only; git diff --staged --name-only) | sort -u

The above example will show me a sorted list of changed files (including the staged ones) in a git project without duplicates.

Here's another example:

$ echo "world"; echo "hello" | sort -u
#=> world
#=> hello

$ (echo "world"; echo "hello") | sort -u
#=> hello
#=> world

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