What is a pipe?
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Answer / dhinesh vasudevan
pipe is passage which is used to fluid flow from one to
another end
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 24 Yes | 3 No |
Answer / shree
Pipe is use to take output of one command to intput of
other command
ex: who | grep root
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 18 Yes | 9 No |
Answer / dhinesh
Pipe is a tube or hollow cylinder for the conveyance of
fluid, gas and sometimes other materials. The
terms 'pipe' . 'Pipe' is generally specified by the
internal diameter (ID) depending upon which are considered
the most important to the designer.
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Answer / sujeet kumar sinha
It is a tubular item made of metal,plastic,glass etc. meant
for conveying liquid, gas or anything that flows.
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Answer / c nandakumar
It is a hollow cylinderical conduit used for convey liquids from one place to the other
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 5 Yes | 2 No |
Answer / ankit sharma
pipe is a circular hollow tube or cylinder which is used for
conveying the fluid,gases and other materials.
The pipe is generally specified by the nominal diameter.
The outer diameter of the pipe is fixed but the internal
diameter will depend on the pipe thickness.
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Answer / tirumal kumar
It is a cylindrical conduit used to flow fluid from one
place to another place according to the dimensional
standards of ASME
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Answer / ashu sharma
pipe is a closed conduit of circular cross-section which allows the fluid to flow from one direction to another.pipe is only specified by its O.D only and no other standard specification.
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Answer / biswajit parida
As we know every output of a command in unix is treated as
a file.
so while we are using command we need have to check three
things
1.command
2.option
3.argument
Syntax:<command> [option] <argument>
pipe is the mechanisim to running the filtered output, it
takes the output from left hand
side command and used it as a argument in right hand side.
Example:ls|grep "abc.txt"
In this example the output of the ls is treated as a
file and it takes as argument for
right hand side command.
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Answer / jaag
A Pipe is a pressure tight cylinder used to convey the fluid
from one point to another point by a normally designated
commonly available material.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 3 No |
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