103.4 Streams, Pipes, Redirects

Question 1

Streams - Pipes - Redirects

stream that provide input to
terminals
files
apps
utilities

Answer 1

standard input stream

stdio

Question 2

Streams - Pipes - Redirects

stream that provides output to
terminals
files
apps
utilities

Answer 2

standard output stream

stdout

Question 3

Streams - Pipes - Redirects

superset of standard output stream of error messages that are output to
terminals
files
apps
utilities

Answer 3

standard error stream

Question 4

Streams - Pipes - Redirects

process of taking a stream and sending it somewhere else other than default

Answer 4

redirection

Question 5

Streams - Pipes - Redirects

standard input

Answer 5

/dev/stdin

Question 6

Streams - Pipes - Redirects

standard output

Answer 6

/dev/stdout

Question 7

Streams - Pipes - Redirects

standard error

Answer 7

/stderr

Question 8

Streams - Pipes - Redirects

commonly stderr is redirect to a file logging or to a special device called

Answer 8

/dev/null

discards it

Question 9

Streams - Pipes - Redirects

accepts stdio stream and sends one identical output stream to an indicated file often used when you want to capture output of an app but also need to see the results on screen

Answer 9

tee

Question 10

Streams - Pipes - Redirects

takes input stream (result9s0 of another command - commonly the find command) and then feeds them to another command as indicated

Answer 10

xargs