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What is a pipe

  1. Tells the shell to arrange for the output of the preceding command to be passed as input to the following command

  2. It is just used to connect two diifferent commands

  3. It is useful when you use awk commands only

  4. Tells the shell to arrange for the output
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Explanation

A pipe (|) connects commands so the standard output of the left command becomes standard input for the right command. Option A correctly describes this mechanism. Option B is vague. Option C incorrectly limits pipes to awk only. Option D is incomplete. Pipes enable command chaining for complex data transformations.

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