10 Mar
2020
10 Mar
'20
1:29 p.m.
Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
On 3/6/20 3:44 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Absolutely:
$ mkfifo the_fifo
$ ls -l the_fifo
prw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 0 Mar 10 09:28 the_fifo
$ echo foo > the_fifo & sleep 1 ; cat the_fifo
[1] 3721
foo
[1]+ Done echo foo > the_fifo
As you stated, not that you'd want to do that, but you can.
Arnold
a pipe is a FIFO.
Hum....
Does that mean that I should be able to replace pipes in my shell
commands with a collections of FIFOs?