On 1/24/06, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If I use pipes at the command line in a shell
>
> >ls | grep myfile
>
> is the underlying c code in ls and grep using named
> pipes, fifo, or something much more mysterious?

I don't believe it's that complex at all. Please correct me if I'm
wrong, but in the shell, I believe that the | operator just takes
STDOUT one program and redirects it to STDIN of the other.