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		nailer on Sept 15, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Man Behind Windows PowerShell That's for status, not data. A time in bash is a set of characters, not a time.

lottin on Sept 19, 2017 [–]

All the shell does is allow the user to redirect input and output streams to/from system commands. Whether these commands output/read text or binary data or both is irrelevant from the shell's standpoint.

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