Plumbing

Also referred to as piping, plumbing is a term used to describe a feature found in Linux, Unix, and other operating systems where the output of one program is sent as input to another program. This feature is useful for when a user needs data from one program and does not wish to have to retype all the output.

• An example of a Linux / Unix command that takes advantage of plumbing is the tee command.

Also see: Linux, Operating system definitions, Pipe, Unix