Eli5 what a STDOUT is in computing and what’s an example of it?

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It’s so hard to understand what it is with definitions from Wikipedia and other random websites that come up when I Google it

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It’s just the typical program output stream. Standard Output.

For example, if you do cout or a print statement it goes to stdout. stdout is typically piped to the screen, but can be piped to a file or another executable.

Related, Standard input is for inputs and standard error is the stream for error messages.

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