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Linux tools pipe behavior: Is it a bug or feature?

If you have any experience with the Linux command line, you’ve probably used a pipe to solve tasks by combining simple ...
Network World

‘Stop piping cats’ and 9 less amusing UNIX tips

Don’t ask me why I read “Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits” by author/consultant Michael Stutz, but I did. And even not knowing the first thing about UNIX command lines, I can tell you that the article ...
Network World

Using pipes on Linux to get a lot more done

One of the things that I have always loved about Unix and then Linux is how it allows me to connect a series of commands together with pipes and get a lot of work done without a lot of effort. I can ...
InfoWorld

Unix: When pipes don’t make sense

It’s been nearly 20 years since I first came across the Useless Use of Cat (UUOC) awards. Unix notable and Perl disciple Randall Schwartz had begun handing out these embarrassing awards around 1995 to ...
Ars Technica

Pipe Performance in Windows

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>A pipe is an interprocess communication mechanism available on both Windows and Linux (and UNIX). Pipes originally ...