what are the uses of filters?

Answer Posted / satish

A filter is a program/command that gets most of its data
from its standard input and writes its main results to its
standard output.

Following are some filter commands.
awk,cat,comm,cut,expand,compress,fold,grep,head,tail,sed,sh,
tee,uniq,wc

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