Shell stdin/stdout

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Mon Aug 12 00:41:33 EDT 2013


Jacque-

Sunday, August 11, 2013, 9:33:09 PM, you wrote:

>> put "cat" && <pathToImg> && "| pngquant 16" into tCmd

> Cool. What's the pipe do? Is that like ">"?

Yeah, sort of. It takes the output of the first command ("cat") that
normally would go to stdout and redirects it (pipes it) into the stdin
input of the second command ("pngquant").

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-Mark Wieder
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