What is the use of pipes?

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What is the use of pipes?..

Answer / shilpa

Output of one command can be used as input for other
command. Hence execution time will be reduced

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What is the use of pipes?..

Answer / abinash

its is used to sned the output of one unix command as
inpiut to another unix command.
e.g.
ps -aef | grep <process name>

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What is the use of pipes?..

Answer / bhaskar

Pipe command is used for combing 2 values
for eaxmple

who|sort

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What is the use of pipes?..

Answer / abani_mahana

Pipe command is used sending one command's output to other command input
ex:- ls -l | wc -l
here ls -l will show details of files available and wc -l will show how many rows(total no of rows) the previous command diaplayed

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