Last month, Shane Emmons did a post on implementing pipe in ruby. Check out his post here. As Shane mentioned, the unix pipe operator is extremely powerful and simple to use / understand. The result of the first operation is passed as the argument for the next operation and so on. Last summer, shortly before…

The unix | (pipe) operator is an extremely powerful and simple tool. With it you can do amazing feats, like kill vagrant when it’s misbehaving: ps aux | grep vagrant | grep -v grep | tr -s ” ” | cut -d” ” -f2 | xargs kill or open every file that references ShimMessageView: vi…