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How stable are Unix shell “stdin/stdout APIs”?
grepping, awking, sedding, and piping are day-to-day routine of a user of any Unix-like operating system, may it be on the command line or inside a shell script (collectively called filters from now ...
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Program to filter lines by passing them to an external program?
I'm looking for a program to use an external program to filter the lines of a stream - pretty much a version of grep that, for each line, prints or suppresses it based on whether the specified program ...
