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A Unix filter is a command pattern that allows the output of one command to be "piped" into the input of the next command.

Commands like 'ls' which list a directory are not filters since they only generate output. Filter examples are grep, sed, sort, uniq, awk.

Commands in Unix are usually filters unless they only create output, like 'ls', 'vi', etc.

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