Linux systems support pipes that enable passing output from one command to another, but they also support 'named pipes,' which are quite different. Most people who spend time on the Linux command line ...

One of the things that I have always loved about Unix and then Linux is how it allows me to connect a series of commands together with pipes and get a lot of work done without a lot of effort. I can ...

In CPU design, there is Ahmdal’s law. Simply put, it means that if some process is contributing to 10% of your execution, optimizing it can’t improve things by more than 10%. Common sense, really, but ...

One of the best things about working at the Linux (or similar OS) command line is the use of pipes. In simple terms, a pipe takes the output of one command and sends it to the input of another command ...

The problem is this: I have a code which expects data in a specific format. I want a compiled-in "front-end" that reads in whatever format is passed in, converts it, and feeds it to the "core" code.