Unix Pipes
Discussions praise Unix pipes for data processing pipelines, compare them to new tools or features inspired by them, and explore piping in languages like Python, Ruby, and JavaScript.
📉 Falling 0.4x DevOps & Infrastructure
3,084
Comments
19
Years Active
5
Top Authors
#7174
Topic ID
Activity Over Time
2008 9
2009 20
2010 53
2011 83
2012 113
2013 145
2014 146
2015 183
2016 163
2017 202
2018 170
2019 251
2020 286
2021 214
2022 244
2023 300
2024 264
2025 216
2026 22
Top Contributors
Keywords
FID SPM pypi.org linux.die IMO JS sourceforge.net FSL POSIX PID pipes unix pipe pipeline pipelines pid shell ids cat optimal
Sample Comments
What's wrong with old good Unix pipes?
Would be nice if Unixes provided better support for pipelines of this sort...
This is mostly inspired by linux piping
Pipes are fast enough for iterating and composing cat sed awk cut grep uniq jq etc etc.
Unix pipes are very effective I believe.
Yup, it looks and behaves very much like Unix piping.
Isn't this what pipes are for?
The Unix pipe seems like scriptable copy & paste.
You are now thinking with pipes.
hahaha i mean this implementation. piping things in the shell is great