[cs631apue] question about pipeline 4

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Wed Dec 17 01:19:43 EST 2014


Sen Jiang <sjiang11 at stevens.edu> wrote:
> I'm currently treating this as a valid command same as cmd1.
> Do I have to change it?

"Run cmd1 and put the output into this following command with is
nothing" is not the same as "run cmd1 and put the output to stdout".

As a user, would you expect "cmd1 |" to be the same as "cmd1"?  I
wouldn't.

-Jan


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