How to fix problem with pipes on my ubuntu

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Published on 2010-05-06T22:55:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 22:59 UTC
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I installed ubuntu on a virtual box and I am running it on vista. I am trying to run a few programs which use pipes. There is some kind of installation problem for pipes.

How can I resolve this issue?

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