Talk:Filter (Unix)

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"Filter program" is a Unix-specific concept with a technical definition; perhaps the page should be renamed "Filter (Unix)".

Pherhaps there should be a separate page, e.g. "Filter (software)" for non-Unix filters such as mail filter, printer filter, spam filter, etc. however only the first of these exists at present... Jorge Stolfi 00:51, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Disambig links

It would be much appreciated if the contributors to this article coul fix disambiguation page links contained herein. Cheers! BD2412 T 16:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meaningless examples

Wouldn't it be more useful if there were simper examples that showed what you can do with a pipeline, and not require knowledge of perl to understand? e.g. "cat /etc/passwd | cut -d : -f 1 | grep foo" or something like that? The perl examples don't even have the pipe symbol, so while I can see they are filtering, they don't use standard input like it says they do. 84.209.77.218 (talk) 23:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)