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Linux tools pipe behavior: Is it a bug or feature?

If you have any experience with the Linux command line, you’ve probably used a pipe to solve tasks by combining simple ...
CNET

How to pipe command output to the clipboard in OS X

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...
Lifehacker

Pipe commands to cmd.exe with switches

Lifehacker reader Paladin writes in with some smart command line-fu for running quick commands using command line switches: Whenever I want to do a quick "ping google.com" to see whether my network ...
GIGAZINE

In Windows, you can pipe 'clip' after a command to put the output into the clipboard, which is convenient.

The 'clip' command has the functions of 'saving the output of other commands to the clipboard' and 'saving the contents of a specified file to the clipboard.' This time, we will actually use the ...
Simon Fraser University

Reading from and Writing to OpenVMS Commands (Pipes)

Under OpenVMS, you can now use the FILENAME statement to assign filerefs to a pipe. Pipes enable your SAS application to receive input from any OpenVMS command that ...
Linux Journal

Command-Line Tip: Put Down the Pipe

Learn a few techniques for avoiding the pipe and making your command-line commands more efficient. Anyone who uses the command line would acknowledge how powerful the pipe is. Because of the pipe, you ...