what are filters?

Answer Posted / rajib mallick

In Unix, A filter is nothing but the commands/ Programs
that have the capability to read its input from std/in, and
gives the output to std/out.Fork and exec are resposible
system calls for the development of filters.

By ex:- cut, sort, tee, touch, lp, more, less, head, tail
etc...

Thanks,

RAZIB.

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