can someone help to explain command line pipes with better example ? or even with the example used in this course. I did not understand this example.
Chapter: Working with SHELL -II, Topic : IO Direction (03:26 minutes)
As an example, you can try to “cat” or concatenate a file.
for example: cat /etc/hosts.
This will print the entire contents of this file. Now, using command line pipes you can pass the output of this command as an input this way:
cat /etc/hosts | grep localhost
This will effectively, search for a pattern called “localhost” from the output of “cat /etc/hosts”.
Hope this helps.
let us know should you still have any questions.
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