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Pipe

Pipe

Owned by Eliot Muir
Last updated: Sept 24, 2021
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Pipes are an important tool in Unix system programming. A pipe is a bidirectional way of communicating data.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_pipe

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