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chriswarbo • last Thursday at 11:23 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Theirs "turns off" one element of a pipeline; yours turns off everything after a certain point.

This will output the stdout of mycmd1:

    mycmd1 #| mycmd2 | mycmd3
This will output the stdout of mycmd3:

    mycmd1 | \# mycmd2 | mycmd3

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mkoryak • last Thursday at 12:19 PM

Can you explain to me why either of these is useful?

I've somehow gotten by never really needing to pipe any commands in the terminal, probably because I mostly do frontend dev and use the term for starting the server and running prodaccess

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000ooo000 • last Thursday at 8:38 PM

Ah duh, cheers