pipe
In Unix, DOS, Windows, OS/2, and other operating systems , it is a way of stringing two programs together so that the output of one is fed to the other as input. "Pipe" is also a name for the |-beam character (|) and is used as slang for cable (see: fat pipes).
See also : broken pipe
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