[TriLUG] confessions of a bash junky: the mkfifo command

James Olin Oden james.oden at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 13:23:14 EDT 2007


On 8/28/07, jonc at nc.rr.com <jonc at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> I write a lot of scripts. I mean a LOT of scripts. If I can solve a problem in 10 to 15 minutes by throwing it into a bash script, then that's what happens. So I *love* bash... unabashedly.
>
> I recently ran across an old command 'mkfifo" and tilted my head as I wondered once more, what the heck this does...  In earlier days I had stared at the man pages for mkfifo with blinking eyes and then moved on... thinking that perhaps one day I might be wise enough to comprehend this technical soup before me, but not that day... No my friend - not that day, but *this* day!
>
> Below are my notes on using 'mkfifo'. Submitted for your diversion.
Thanks for the info.  I know how to do this in C and perl, but never
thought of doing it in bash....cool beans...james



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