What is the use of pipes?
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Answer / shilpa
Output of one command can be used as input for other
command. Hence execution time will be reduced
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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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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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