Pipes: The Power of |

The pipe (|) sends the output of one command as input to another. This is one of the most powerful features of the terminal!

How It Works

command1 | command2

The output of command1 becomes the input of command2.

Examples

cat file.txt | grep "word"        # Read file, then search it
ls | wc -l                         # List files, then count them
cat data.txt | sort                # Read file, then sort lines

Your Task

A file called fruits.txt contains fruit names, one per line, in random order. Use a pipe to read the file and sort the output alphabetically. The first fruit in the output should be apple.