On 18-Jun-1998, Hans Aberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 16:22 -0400 98/06/16, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
> >
> >Unix shell pipes provide a really nice way to do IPC e.g.
> >
> >$ cat file | grep blah | wc -l
...
> One can think of pipes as function composition, i.e. putting
> f = cat(file)
> g = grep(blah)
> h = wc(-l)
> then the line above is h(g(f)).
Or `h $ g $ f'.
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