An idiomatic way of redirecting STDIN to STDOUT

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Trying to redirect bytes from io::stdin() into io::stdout(), I came up with the code below, which uses a Vec as a buffer. This solution feels a bit superfluous, since the BufReader and BufWriter should already have their own buffers, so maybe it is possible to plug the reader into the writer directly?

use std::io::{self, BufRead, BufReader, BufWriter, Write};

const BUFSIZE: usize = 8 * 1024;

fn main() {
    let mut reader = BufReader::with_capacity(BUFSIZE, io::stdin());
    let mut writer = BufWriter::with_capacity(BUFSIZE, io::stdout());

    // Do I really need this buffer?
    let mut buf = Vec::with_capacity(BUFSIZE);

    while let Ok(num) = reader.read_until(b'\n', &mut buf) {
        if num == 0 {
            break;
        }
        writer.write_all(&buf).unwrap();
    }

    writer.flush().unwrap();
}
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I think there is an io::copy function for coping from Read to Write.

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Perfect, thank you.

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