Pipelines
Explore how Bash pipelines connect the output of one program directly to the input of another, enabling you to process data efficiently without using temporary files. Understand the concept by working through examples with commands like info and grep to automate data handling in your Bash scripts.
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The redirection operators are useful when we save data for manual analysis or processing. When we want to process data with another program, storing them in temporary files is inconvenient. Managing these files takes extra effort. We should remember their paths and remove them after usage.
Unix provides an alternative solution for transferring text data: a pipeline. This mechanism shares data between programs by passing messages. It doesn’t use the file system.
How pipelines work
The following example ...