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• plumbing n. [Unix] Term used for shell code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under Unix, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• exec: /eg-zek'/ vt., n. 1. [UNIX: from `execute'] Synonym for {chain}, derives from the `exec(2)' call.
  2. [from `executive'] obs. The command interpreter for an {OS} (see {shell})...
• ee: n.,vt. [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission.
  "Oh, you're sending him the {bits} to that? Slap on a tee for me....
• exec /eg-zek'/ or /eks'ek/ vt., n. 1. [Unix: from `execute'] Synonym for chain, derives from the exec(2) call.
  2. [from `executive'] obs. The command interpreter for an OS (see shell)...
• ee n.,vt. [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission.
  Oh, you're sending him the bits to that? Slap on a tee for me....
• ool: 1. n. A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a cross-referencing program.
  Oppose {app}, {operating system}. 2. [UNIX] An application program with a simple, `transparent' (typically text-stream) interface designed specifically to be used in programmed combination with other tools (see {filter}, {plumbing})....
• diff: /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs').
  Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare {vdiff}....
• hell [orig. Multics n. techspeak, widely propagated via Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
• filter: [orig. {{UNIX}}, now also in {{MS-DOS}}] n.
  A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditio...