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Pipes

Pipes are used to chain multiple function to act on the previous one's input.

Exemple uses:

history | grep bitOfACommandYouDon'tFullyRemember

To get the output from the history command and process it with grep to find something.

./someProgram | tee outputFile

To both see the output of a program on screen and also write it to a file.