For the Love of Pipes

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Post by ingve » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 10:07 AM UTC

Re: For the Love of Pipes

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Post by alias_neo » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:13 AM UTC

Anyone else disappointed that this wasn't some in-depth, Docker related pipe usage post?

For those of us that know who Jess is, the post is a little lacking. I went there to read about some cool things she's doing with pipe, but was disappointed at a post that contained nothing.

Re: For the Love of Pipes

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Post by darrenf » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:16 AM UTC

I twitched horribly at the final sentence, screaming inwardly "you don't pipe to /dev/null, you redirect to it". And now I feel like an arsehole.

Re: For the Love of Pipes

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Post by moonbug » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:17 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #2

Anyone else disappointed that this wasn't some in-depth, Docker related pipe usage post? For those of us that know who Jess is, the post is a little lacking. I went there to read about some cool things she's doing with pipe, but was disappointed at a post that contained nothing.

Thanks for the insight, internet guy.

Re: For the Love of Pipes

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Post by Insanity » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:18 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #2

Anyone else disappointed that this wasn't some in-depth, Docker related pipe usage post? For those of us that know who Jess is, the post is a little lacking. I went there to read about some cool things she's doing with pipe, but was disappointed at a post that contained nothing.

I disagree - the pipe command is trivial at least to us whom have used linux (or unix) based systems for a long time.

But to people who follow her and are rather new to this way of doing things, this could be a good read.

Either way, it is nice to be reminded of the unix philosophy about chaining tools together for junior and senior alike.

Edit: typo fixes

Re: For the Love of Pipes

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Post by depr » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:21 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #2

Anyone else disappointed that this wasn't some in-depth, Docker related pipe usage post? For those of us that know who Jess is, the post is a little lacking. I went there to read about some cool things she's doing with pipe, but was disappointed at a post that contained nothing.

no

Re: For the Love of Pipes

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Post by msravi » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:24 AM UTC

awk, grep, sort, and pipe. I'm always amazed at how well thought out, simple, functional, and fast the unix tools are. I still prefer to sift through and validate data using these tools rather than use excel or any full-fledged language.

Edit: Also "column" to format your output into a table.

Re: For the Love of Pipes

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Post by icebraining » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:24 AM UTC

For an alternative view, don't forget to read the section on Pipes of The Unix-Haters Handbook: http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf (page 198)

Re: For the Love of Pipes

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Post by aaaaaaaaaab » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:27 AM UTC

If only there was some standard format to interchange structured data over pipes, other than plain text delimited with various (incompatible) combinations of whitespaces, using various (incompatible) escaping schemes.

Re: For the Love of Pipes

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Post by benj111 » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:34 AM UTC

Why isn't the pipe a construct that has caught on in 'proper' languages?