pipes vs. redirects
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The both do the same basic thing; they redirect a file descriptor of the process executed. The difference lies in how. A pipe connects the stdout of one process to the stdin of another, whereas redirection redirects from/to a file (> from stdout to a file, < from a file to stdin).