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Pipe (computing)

Pipe ("|" or "¦") is the name of the ASCII character at position 124 (decimal). The pipe character is depicted as either a solid vertical bar or a vertical bar with a break in the middle (broken bar). The character is usually depicted as a broken bar on IBM PC keyboards to distinguish it from other characters.

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An operating system mechanism originating in Unix, which allows the user to direct the output of one shell command through another command. See Pipe (Unix).

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See pipe for other uses of the word.

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