Glossary · Phase 7 · Software engineering
Pipe
The | between two shell commands, which sends the first command's output into the second as its input.
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Pipes and text tools in the shell · grep, wc, sort, uniq, head and cut, chained with pipes to answer questions about logs and data. About 25 minutes.
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