A Linux stream is data traveling in a Linux shell from one process to another through a pipe, or from one file to another as a redirect. Streams can travel through several Linux stream-pipe connections of incremental commands to accomplish administrative tasks.

What are stream pipes?

A stream pipe is a UNIX interprocess communication (IPC) facility that allows processes on the same computer to communicate with each other. … Unlike shared-memory connections, stream-pipe connections allow distributed transactions between database servers that are on the same computer.

What is standard IO in Linux?

Standard Streams In I/O Redirection

standard input (stdin) : The stdin stream is numbered as stdin (0). The bash shell takes input from stdin. By default, keyboard is used as input. standard output (stdout) : The stdout stream is numbered as stdout (1).