Showing posts with label What is meant by Pipe and Filter in Unix or Linux or Solaris or AIX?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What is meant by Pipe and Filter in Unix or Linux or Solaris or AIX?. Show all posts

Monday, October 1, 2012

What is meant by Pipe and Filter in Unix or Linux?

PIPE:
Pipe is a way of passing data from standard output of one process to standard input of another process.

Filter:
It is a program that by default reads from standard input and writes to standard output.