pipeline

0001-01-01

On Linux and Unix-like operating systems, pipelines are an interprocess communication method in which processes are chained together using their standard streams: stdout, stdin, and stderr.

This is represented in most shells with the pipe character: |

Example:

ps aux | grep daniel     ### execute 'ps aux', pipe output into 'grep
			     daniel' to show lines containing 'daniel'

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