If you use just about any modern command line, you probably understand the idea of pipes. Pipes are the ability to connect the output from one program to the input of another. For example, you can ...

What it does is pass the output of the command on the left side of the pipe to the command on the right side of the pipe through a special connection. For example, you could use a command like this ...

Well, my Operating Systems professor has decided to be a complete assshole. He has given us an assignment to use the above commands in an assignment. Problem is, the concepts are barely discussed in ...