If you use just about any modern command line, you probably understand the idea of pipes. Pipes are the ability to connect the output from one program to the input of another. For example, you can ...

Just about every Linux user is familiar with the process of piping data from one process to another using | signs. It provides an easy way to send output from one command to another and end up with ...

The problem is this: I have a code which expects data in a specific format. I want a compiled-in "front-end" that reads in whatever format is passed in, converts it, and feeds it to the "core" code.