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Linux Pipes – what are they and example of use

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http://linuxaria.com – Unix based operating systems like Linux offer a unique approach to join two commands on the terminal, with it you can take the output of the first command and use it as input of the second command, this is the concept of pipe or | . Pipes allow two separate process to communicate with each other also if they were not created to do it, so this open an infinite series of opportunity. (HowTos)

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Unix based operating systems like Linux offer a unique approach to join two discrete commands, and generate a new command using the concept of pipe(lines). For example, consider command1|command2. Here, whatever output is generated by the first command becomes the standard input for the second command.

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I have something that I've been staring at for most of the night and can't figure out. I'm writing code in C that is supposed to use pipes to pass a byte back and forth, allowing me to switch between a parent and child process that will take turns writing a string to a file.

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