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DrJones1098 on June 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Beauty of Unix Pipelines

How do you know which ones receive input from standard input or how can you find out efficiently?

ketanmaheshwari on June 15, 2020 [–]

The man page of the command helps in most cases. Often the description section has info if the command reads from standard input, a file or both.

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