what is the use of

unix-stream("path/to/file");

I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Without context, that makes no sense to me. It could be a user-defined function in a program. It could be a little know API method for some package you have installed. It could be a compilation error.

Where did you find/see this code? What is the surrounding context?

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