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What is a pipe and give an example?
A pipe is two or more commands separated by pipe char '|'. That tells the shell to arrange for the output of the preceding command to be passed as input to the following command. Example : ls -l | prThe output for a command ls is the standard input of pr. When a sequence of commands are combined using pipe, then it is called pipeline.
satyam.kumar2008
- Aug 9th, 2008
The Unix commands alone are powerful, but when two or more commands get combine together, we can accomplish complex task with ease.In unix we can combine the two or more commands together to perform m...
wow_suraj
- May 7th, 2008
Pipe '|' is used to combine two or more commands to be executed at the sameinstance.Pipe redirects output of the first command (before '|') as input to the second comman...
