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Jan 072008
 

How to use pipe in Linux

Answer:

Pipe | is very useful when you want to redirect the output of a program as an input of another program.

The combinations of using pipe in Linux is almost unlimited.

Some common usage:

1. count the number of lines in a file

cat test.txt | wc -l

2. read a very large text file

cat large.txt | less

3. filter filename from find util

find -type f | grep foo.txt