Piping across machines? - a suggestion

[Matthew Seaman]

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Nino Ivanov wrote:

> One nice thing about unix is this piping, like programX | programY |
> programZ...
> 
> Well, I just thought: Wouldn't it be interesting if this were possible -
> in the same simplicity - over several machines as well? Like, something
> similar to: machine1:programX | machine2:programY | machine3:programZ...
> Machines could be identified by a name or an IP-Address.

man nc

Does exactly what you suggest, and it's in the base system.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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