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Does pipe have to write temporary file?

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Mar 15, 202610011 views

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I found that if I transfer a great amount of data between two processes via pipe, some temporary file will be created by linux in /tmp directory. If the pipe operation succeeds, the corresponding temporary file will be removed by OS automatically. But if the operation failed, the tmp file remains t…

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pipes don't store data on disk. /bin/echo foo | grep bar doesn't create any files. try to see all the system calls made by a shell when running a pipeline. is a shell builtin, so I suggested to make the shell run an executable. doesn't have to be on…

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