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| | Unix Filters Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | A filter is a small and (usually) specialized program in Unix-like operating systems that transforms plain text (i.e., human readable) data in some meaningful way and that can be used together with other filters and pipes to form a series of operations that produces highly specific results. |
 | | Numerous filters are included on Unix-like systems, a few of which are awk, cat, comm, csplit, cut, diff, expand, fold, grep, head, join, less, more, paste, sed, sort, spell, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq and wc. |
 | | The ls command lists the contents of /sbin and pipes its output (using the pipe operator, which is designated by the vertical bar character) to the filter grep, which searches for all files and directories that contain the letter sequence mk in their names. |
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