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Cool, the pipe command must be one of the most essential things in Unix/Linux based systems. I would have loved to see some awesome pipe examples though.
by timvisee 8y ago
Cool, the pipe command must be one of the most essential things in Unix/Linux based systems.
I would have loved to see some awesome pipe examples though.
- YesThatTom2 8y agoOk, here are some example pipelines: A simple virus scanner in one line of pipe: https://everythingsysadmin.com/2004/10/whos-infected.html https://everythingsysadmin.com/2004/10/whos-infected.html And a bunch of pipe tricks that are oh so wrong but oh so useful: https://everythingsysadmin.com/2012/09/unorthodoxunix.html https://everythingsysadmin.com/2012/09/unorthodoxunix.html
- hoorayimhelping 8y agodestroyallsoftware's screencasts have pretty good pipe usage / unix-fu.
- bigger_cheese 8y agoBack when I first started using Linux you could pipe random data to /dev/dsp and the speakers would emit various beeps. Used to be a pretty cool trick I think when ASLA came out it stopped working.