Tag: Redirection

A pipe is a form of redirection in Linux used to connect the STDOUT of one command into the STDIN of a second command. It allows us to narrow the output of a string of commands until we have an easily digestible amount of data. The pipe character is the | symbol and is placed between any two commands. Pipes are one of the most used command-line features that Linux has. Every article showing Linux commands will almost inevitably include pipes. 

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Throughout the articles in the Knowledge Base, you may have seen a few interesting characters in the examples.  Specifically, we are referring to these characters:  |, >, and <.  Today, we’re going to talk a bit about pipes.