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In Unix-like computer operating systems (and, to some extent, Microsoft Windows ), a pipeline is a set of processes chained by their standard streams , so that the output of each process ( stdout ) feeds directly as input ( stdin ) to the next one. Filter programs are often used in this configuration.
The concept of pipelines was invented by Douglas McIlroy at Unix 's ancestral home of Bell Labs , prior to the actual invention of the operating system, and implemented in Unix at his insistence, shaping its toolbox philosophy . It is named by analogy to a physical pipeline . The standard shell syntax for pipelines is to list multiple programs to invoke in one command, separated by vertical bars:
Each program is assumed to take input and give output on its standard streams . Each " | " tells the shell to connect the standard output of the left program to the standard input of the right program by an inter-process communication mechanism called an (anonymous) pipe , implemented in the operating system. Since pipes are unidirectional, data flows through the pipeline from left to right.