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Form of interprocess communication

In computing, redirection is a form of interprocess communication, and is a function common to most command-line interpreters, including the various Unix shells that can redirect standard streams to user-specified locations. The concept of redirection is quite old, dating back to the earliest operating systems (OS). A discussion of the design goals for redirection can be found already in the 1971 description of the input-output subsystem of the Multics OS. However, prior to the introduction of UNIX OS with its "pipes", redirection in operating systems was hard or even impossible to do. Wikipedia →

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  1. Redirecting standard input and standard output
  2. Piping
  3. Redirecting to and from the standard file handles
  4. Chained pipelines
  5. Redirect to multiple outputs

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