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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash code to create named Pipe Post 302593845 by jim mcnamara on Sunday 29th of January 2012 12:07:15 PM
Old 01-29-2012
It is making a tar archive on a remote location.

Is that what you want?... If you tell us what you are trying to do, we can cut to solving your problem much faster. For example, do you have to have a named pipe?

Look into the
Code:
mknod  filename_for_pipe p
mkfifo pipename

commands

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 01-29-2012 at 01:53 PM..
 

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Child::Link::IPC::Pipe::Proc(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			 Child::Link::IPC::Pipe::Proc(3pm)

NAME
Child::Link::IPC::Pipe::Proc - Proc object used by the pipe plugin. SEE ALSO
This class inherits from: Child::Link::Proc Child::Link::IPC Child::Link::IPC::Pipe HISTORY
Most of this was part of Parrallel::Runner intended for use in the Fennec project. Fennec is being broken into multiple parts, this is one such part. FENNEC PROJECT
This module is part of the Fennec project. See Fennec for more details. Fennec is a project to develop an extendable and powerful testing framework. Together the tools that make up the Fennec framework provide a potent testing environment. The tools provided by Fennec are also useful on their own. Sometimes a tool created for Fennec is useful outside the greator framework. Such tools are turned into their own projects. This is one such project. Fennec - The core framework The primary Fennec project that ties them all together. AUTHORS
Chad Granum exodist7@gmail.com COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Chad Granum Child is free software; Standard perl licence. Child is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the license for more details. perl v5.10.1 2011-03-07 Child::Link::IPC::Pipe::Proc(3pm)
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