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Understanding how inputs are sent to pipes in Bash
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Mar 15, 20268707 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I dont quite understand how pipes work in bash. I know that it takes an output from one command as the input in another command. What an output is I can get because it's what the command prints out to the screen. But how do I know what input a command will take? Here is an example I thought would w…
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which gem | rm
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"Input" and "command line arguments" are different things. removes the files provided as arguments. A pipe redirects the output of the left-hand command to the input of the right-hand command. It does not affect the command line arguments of the pro…
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