What's a good example of piping commands together?

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

If you were helping someone to learn the concept of pipes on the command line what example would you use? The example that actually came up was as follows:

cat whatever.txt | less

I feel like that's not the best example, namely because there's only one step. What's a good, but fundemental, use of |?

Ideally the example I'll present will use programs that have outputs themselves that can be run independently and then shown piped together.