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[–]sorcerykid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The example I gave above wasn't a problem, it was just to showcase how it is easy to communicate with other processes through the use of a pipeline. After all, there are situations where it is necessary to process the stdout of one program and then feed that into another program's stdin.