Pipes

Batch File Redirection and Pipes

Understand stdin, stdout, and stderr redirection, piping commands together, and silencing output with NUL in Batch scripts.

Pipes and Message Queues

Distinguishing anonymous pipes, named pipes (FIFOs), and message queues as message-passing IPC mechanisms.

Pipes and Redirection

Learn how the shell wires standard input, output, and error between commands and files using redirection operators and pipes to build powerful command chains.

What is Inter-Process Communication (IPC)?

Inter-process communication (IPC) is the set of mechanisms an operating system provides for separate processes — each with its own isolated address space — to…

What are Pipes in Operating Systems?

A pipe is a unidirectional, kernel-buffered byte stream that connects the standard output of one process directly to the standard input of another, letting rel…

Compare Different IPC Mechanisms (Pipes, Shared Memory, Message Queues)

Pipes offer simple, ordered byte-stream communication between related processes with kernel-managed buffering, shared memory offers the fastest raw throughput…