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Feature request: Support POSIX standard of using single hyphen "-" to mean standard input.

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Description

Posix support of using single hyphen "-" to mean standard input.
ref: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

**example**
```
cd ~ && wget -O - "https://path/to/file" | tar xzf -
```
The```-``` argument passed to tar after xzf means to read from standard input instead of from a named file.
The ```-``` argument passed to wget after -O means to write to standard output instead of to a named file.

Here OS will prompt the user to enter fileName from keyboard

It is nice if this feature is supported and system prompt the user to enter filename.

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