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- One of the most powerful features of the shell is the ability to
chain commands together, each taking its input from the previous command's
output.
- This is done using the pipe symbol:
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- Examples (using the wordcount utility):
$ cat .bashrc | wc
7 83 534
$ echo "Hello World" | wc
1 2 12
- Technically this redirects standard output of one command to
be the standard input of another.
- Error messages that are
printed to standard error are not redirected with the pipe.
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