Is there a difference between piping something into another
utility and using the redirection operator to send data
to it?
Erik
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On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Price, Erik wrote:
Is there a difference between piping something into another utility and
using the redirection operator to send data to it?
As I understand it, piping (|) redirects the standard output of one app
into the standard input of another app; the operator is
Is there a difference between piping something into another
utility and using the redirection operator to send data
to it?
An ordinary redirection opens a file descriptor with regular file semantics.
Some shells implement process redirection which is similar to a pipe.
The main difference
On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 07:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
An ordinary redirection opens a file descriptor with regular file
semantics.
Some shells implement process redirection which is similar to a pipe.
The main difference between pipe file descriptors and file file
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:41:52PM -0500, Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does the code that tells the reader or writer to block have to be
written into the application, or is that somehow built into the shell?
If it needs to be built into the application, well then say for
instance
Erik Price wrote:
Does the code that tells the reader or writer to block have to be
written into the application, or is that somehow built into the shell?
It's probably best to think of this behavior as built in, provided by the OS.
The shell just provides a convenient and easy-to-use
