diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/README b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 24a7ee1e81..0000000000
--- a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Test for the pipe utility.
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/archives b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/archives
deleted file mode 100644
index ef940989eb..0000000000
--- a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/archives
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-_/src/init
-_/src/pipe
-_/src/libc
-_/src/posix
-_/src/vfs
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/hash b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/hash
deleted file mode 100644
index b7b0e3ec68..0000000000
--- a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2020-04-23 8aee92222c462a0b9e4099a22e77adb0e6f82eb0
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/runtime b/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/runtime
deleted file mode 100644
index ca5c4d8d06..0000000000
--- a/repos/gems/recipes/pkg/test-pipe/runtime
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-<runtime ram="32M" caps="1000" binary="init">
-
-	<events>
-		<timeout meaning="failed" sec="10" />
-		<log meaning="succeeded">child "pipe" exited with exit value 0</log>
-		<log meaning="failed">Error: </log>
-	</events>
-
-	<content>
-		<rom label="ld.lib.so"/>
-		<rom label="vfs.lib.so"/>
-		<rom label="libc.lib.so"/>
-		<rom label="libm.lib.so"/>
-		<rom label="posix.lib.so"/>
-		<rom label="pipe"/>
-	</content>
-
-	<config>
-		<parent-provides>
-			<service name="CPU"/>
-			<service name="IO_MEM"/>
-			<service name="IO_PORT"/>
-			<service name="IRQ"/>
-			<service name="LOG"/>
-			<service name="PD"/>
-			<service name="RM"/>
-			<service name="ROM"/>
-		</parent-provides>
-		<default-route>
-			<any-service> <parent/> <any-child/> </any-service>
-		</default-route>
-		<start name="pipe" caps="128">
-			<resource name="RAM" quantum="2M"/>
-			<config>
-				<vfs>
-					<rom name="config"/>
-					<dir name="dev"> <log/> </dir>
-				</vfs>
-				<libc stdin="/config" stdout="/dev/log"/>
-			</config>
-		</start>
-	</config>
-</runtime>
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/src/pipe/content.mk b/repos/gems/recipes/src/pipe/content.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index c888567bee..0000000000
--- a/repos/gems/recipes/src/pipe/content.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-SRC_DIR = src/app/pipe
-include $(GENODE_DIR)/repos/base/recipes/src/content.inc
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/src/pipe/hash b/repos/gems/recipes/src/pipe/hash
deleted file mode 100644
index fd064e8cb3..0000000000
--- a/repos/gems/recipes/src/pipe/hash
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2020-04-23 aeef8c953c13f9cfb4d01b6e7d74c18d50e824a0
diff --git a/repos/gems/recipes/src/pipe/used_apis b/repos/gems/recipes/src/pipe/used_apis
deleted file mode 100644
index 2115aa2d67..0000000000
--- a/repos/gems/recipes/src/pipe/used_apis
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-base
-libc
-posix
diff --git a/repos/gems/run/depot_autopilot.run b/repos/gems/run/depot_autopilot.run
index 09551e9fae..9c1c0c8db1 100644
--- a/repos/gems/run/depot_autopilot.run
+++ b/repos/gems/run/depot_autopilot.run
@@ -694,7 +694,6 @@ set default_test_pkgs {
 	test-nic_loopback
 	test-part_block_gpt
 	test-part_block_mbr
-	test-pipe
 	test-pthread
 	test-ram_fs_chunk
 	test-read_only_rom
diff --git a/repos/gems/src/app/pipe/README b/repos/gems/src/app/pipe/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bd766efc9..0000000000
--- a/repos/gems/src/app/pipe/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-The pipe utility is for piping between files using the
-semantics of POSIX stdio.
-
-An example of piping clock jitter to a terminal session:
-
-! <start name="pipe">
-!   <resource name="RAM" quantum="2M"/>
-!   <config>
-!     <vfs>
-!       <jitterentropy name="rng"/>
-!       <terminal name="tty"/>
-!     </vfs>
-!     <libc stdin="/rng" stdout="/tty"/>
-!   </config>
-! </start>
diff --git a/repos/gems/src/app/pipe/main.cc b/repos/gems/src/app/pipe/main.cc
deleted file mode 100644
index 30db196ef6..0000000000
--- a/repos/gems/src/app/pipe/main.cc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * \brief  Standalone POSIX pipe
- * \author Emery Hemingway
- * \date   2018-03-06
- */
-
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2018 Genode Labs GmbH
- *
- * This file is part of the Genode OS framework, which is distributed
- * under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.
- */
-
-/* Genode includes */
-#include <base/log.h>
-
-/* Libc includes */
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <errno.h>
-
-int main()
-{
-	enum { SIXTEEN_K = 1 << 14 };
-	static char buf[SIXTEEN_K];
-
-	Genode::uint64_t total = 0;
-
-	while (true) {
-
-		auto const nr = fread(buf, 1, sizeof(buf), stdin);
-		if (nr == 0 && feof(stdin))
-			break;
-
-		if (nr < 1 || nr > sizeof(buf)) {
-			int res = errno;
-			Genode::error((char const *)strerror(res));
-			return res;
-		}
-
-		auto remain = nr;
-		auto off = 0;
-		while (remain > 0) {
-			auto const nw = fwrite(buf+off, 1, remain, stdout);
-			if (nw < 1 || nw > remain) {
-				int res = errno;
-				Genode::error((char const *)strerror(res));
-				return res;
-			}
-
-			remain -= nw;
-			off += nw;
-			total += nw;
-		}
-	}
-
-	Genode::log("piped ", total, " bytes");
-	return 0;
-};
diff --git a/repos/gems/src/app/pipe/target.mk b/repos/gems/src/app/pipe/target.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d6692932b..0000000000
--- a/repos/gems/src/app/pipe/target.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-TARGET = pipe
-SRC_CC = main.cc
-LIBS   = base libc posix