alt Hacker NewsTheirs "turns off" one element of a pipeline; yours turns off everything after a certain point.
This will output the stdout of mycmd1:
mycmd1 #| mycmd2 | mycmd3
mycmd1 | \# mycmd2 | mycmd3Theirs "turns off" one element of a pipeline; yours turns off everything after a certain point.
This will output the stdout of mycmd1:
mycmd1 #| mycmd2 | mycmd3
mycmd1 | \# mycmd2 | mycmd3
Can you explain to me why either of these is useful?
I've somehow gotten by never really needing to pipe any commands in the terminal, probably because I mostly do frontend dev and use the term for starting the server and running prodaccess