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plumbing
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n. [Unix] Term used for shell code, so called because of the prevalence of
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pipelines that feed the output of one program to the input of another. Under
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Unix, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a
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suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a
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shell script; this is much less effort than writing C every time, and the
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capability is considered one of Unix's major winning features. A few other
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OSs such as IBM's VM/CMS support similar facilities. Esp.: used in the
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construction hairy plumbing (see hairy ). You can kluge together a basic
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spell-checker out of sort (1) , comm (1) , and tr (1) with a little
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plumbing. See also tee.
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