On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 05:27:01PM +1100, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> I'm pretty sure "piping" appeared first in UNIX then was adopted in other
> Oss.
>
> ...Wayne
yes, pipelining was a UNIX concept introduced in the early 1970's. the
real power of the pipeline in UNIX/Linux is the ability to serially pass
processed data from one command into the next (and the next, and the
next, ad nauseum until one runs out of RAM (real or otherwise)...)
Don't forget the < and > commands also which allow the user to feed the
contents of a file into the input of a command, or feed the output of a
command into a file respectively - these can also be very useful.
davidt
for the interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_streams
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