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On 4/28/16, 7:30 PM, in article dofv9bFq6d1U2@mid.individual.net, "vallor"
<vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

> Hard to believe that someone so wrapped-up in his "visual" BASIC world
> would actually (try to) challenge Linux's text-processing capabilities.
> 
> Text handling has always been one of Unix's main strengths.  For the
> time, the basic IPO model using text was innovative...though it did take
> them a little while to figure out what to use for the pipe character.
> 
> So we can safely ignore those who troll the group with their homework
> assignments.
> 
> Furthermore, though, you find people -- possibly you, and certainly NT
> zealots -- who think that "text" is all that can flow through a
> pipeline.  And in the past, this was mentioned to compare and contrast
> shell programming with "PowerShell".
> 
> Of course, pipes can carry more than text: they can carry a video stream,
> an audio stream, image stream, or any stream of bytes.  This makes tools
> like "sox" all that much more useful.
> 
> And if you need more than one pipe to combine or split data?  Tada, Linux
> has named pipes.

Automator uses a similar concept of piping to help even non-programmers and
people who would never touch the command line get a lot done with their own
"programs" - pretty cool! Would love to see something like that on Linux.


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