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When creating LaTeX-driven reports, I would like to skip writing LaTeX sources to the disk prior to compilation and cleaning up afterwards. Can a stream be sent to pdflatex somehow?

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without specifing an output name you get with 

cat test.tex | pdflatex &>/dev/null && rm texput.log texput.aux

the output file texput.pdf

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Perhaps I am missing something, but it seems to me that test.tex is written to a filesystem; it is not a stream. – ipavlic Feb 17 '12 at 14:43
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that is a demonstration how a stream can go to pdflatex. In this case it comes from cat and in your case "I don't know ..." – Herbert Feb 17 '12 at 16:31
I see. Thank you. – ipavlic Feb 17 '12 at 16:35

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