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Mar 14, 2015 at 9:25 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackUnix/status/576675633750753280
Mar 10, 2015 at 21:19 answer added Lexelby timeline score: 3
S Mar 9, 2015 at 16:44 history suggested Rob CC BY-SA 3.0
Fixed the language in the question which accidentally conflated multiple computing concepts. The question was good enough to understand but could confuse beginners
Mar 9, 2015 at 16:19 comment added Rob Also, many people refer to stdin stdout and stderr as input or output 'streams'. There are like small rivers of data hence a stream. You were correct to grapple for a word to describe them collectively but signal is just the wrong word.
Mar 9, 2015 at 16:13 comment added Rob At the command-line enter man -k signal to learn the special meaning of this key concept in UNIX and Linux. man kill would be a good page to start on.
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Mar 9, 2015 at 14:43 history edited Tobias Kienzler CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 9, 2015 at 12:26 answer added Tobias Kienzler timeline score: 6
Mar 9, 2015 at 10:47 comment added Janis Thanks for your clarification. Please don't use the word signal since it has a specific meaning in Unix, and the term was very misleading in this context. Thanks again.
Mar 9, 2015 at 0:25 vote accept Abdul Al Hazred
Mar 9, 2015 at 0:24 vote accept Abdul Al Hazred
Mar 9, 2015 at 0:25
Mar 9, 2015 at 0:17 comment added Abdul Al Hazred in linux each command has one input and two outputs. they are labeled with 0 (for input) , 1 (for output) and 2 (for error output) . I was thinking of 1 when i said "output signal" because I read that the tee command splits only the output labeled 1. When I said "network of commands" I was not very technical, I am not sure how network is defined correctly from a mathematical point of view, but I was simply thinking of a tree of commands typologically speaking, so that some commands can be parents to more than one child command.
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Mar 8, 2015 at 21:45 history edited muru CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 8, 2015 at 21:37 comment added Janis Explain what you mean by "output signal" and describe what you mean by creation of a "network of commands".
Mar 8, 2015 at 21:25 history asked Abdul Al Hazred CC BY-SA 3.0