Why the following redirection doesn’t work?

Asked Dec 10 '19 at 06:29

Active Dec 10 '19 at 06:34

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i typed the following command

which cp | ls -l

It didn’t work as i expected. I wanted that the output of the which command will be a path name. So the ls command will show the information about the path or that file. Although which cp | less works what is supposed to. But why don’t which cp | ls -l works as expected.

edited Dec 10 '19 at 06:34

muru

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asked Dec 10 '19 at 06:29

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Possible duplicate of Why can't certain programs (like readlink) take input from a pipe? ... or more closely: whereis, pipline and ls – muru Dec 10 '19 at 06:35
use xargs then which cp | xargs ls -l – darxmurf Dec 10 '19 at 10:02

Why the following redirection doesn’t work?

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