Re:Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
by hinkley on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:28PM
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Bad examples can doom a project. It's amazing how much time people can spend on a solution while completely ignoring the documentation.
Pipes are probably better used on a set of operations that takes input and runs multiple functions on the input, rather than fiddling with string concatenation multiple times.
What do we use multi-pipes for in unix? I can't recall the last time I used one where the middle action wasn't a filter of some sort. grep -v to remove lines, or colrm or awk print to cherry-pick fields from a multi-field line. Once in a very long while I need to do three commands with filters between them. Beyond that it's too complicated and I make a script to handle several of the steps.
Pipes are probably better used on a set of operations that takes input and runs multiple functions on the input, rather than fiddling with string concatenation multiple times.
What do we use multi-pipes for in unix? I can't recall the last time I used one where the middle action wasn't a filter of some sort. grep -v to remove lines, or colrm or awk print to cherry-pick fields from a multi-field line. Once in a very long while I need to do three commands with filters between them. Beyond that it's too complicated and I make a script to handle several of the steps.