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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ALL,
How can I test a given file name exists and if it is a named pipe file in shell script ?
Thanks............ (2 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Ok, I can't seem to figure this out or find anything on the web about this.
I'm on Sun Solaris, UNIX.
I have the following test script:
#!/bin/ksh
touch test.file
LOG=./tmp.log
rm -f ${LOG}
PIPE=./tmp.pipe
mkfifo ${PIPE}
trap "rm -f ${PIPE}" EXIT
tee -a ${LOG} < ${PIPE} &
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3. Programming
Hi All !
I try to collect importent events from syslog and in my
syslog conf, there is something like this:
*.* |/logs/ipes/SLpipe1
I have a program, which opens this pipe and reads the messages from it.
But how this pipe works ? Where can I probably read something about the details,... (3 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am getting data into a Named pipe. Does Named pipe have any size restriction; I know it does not have any storage and it just passes on the data to the next process.
I want to know, if there will be a difference in the Named pipe performance if the data input is more. (I am using DB2... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sudvishw
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
On my machine, all mail is stored in my /var/spool/mail.
IS there a way to direct all mail that goes there into a namep pipe?
Thank you,
Dado (4 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I did
cat < myFile >> myPipe
I was hoping that if I did ls -l, myPipe would now be holding the contents of myFile, and would be the same size. But it was 0.
Also strange was that when I did the command above, cat did not return control back to the shell. Why?
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to copy the contents of a named pipe to a file. I have tried using:
cat pipe.p >> transcript.log
but I have been unsuccessful, any ideas? (4 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Gurus,
I've a File Transaction Server, which communicates with other servers and performs some processing.It uses many Named PIPE's.
By mistake i copied a named PIPE into a text file.
I heard that PIPE files shouldn't be copied.Isn't it?
Since it's a production box, i'm afraid on... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tamil
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9. Programming
Hi All,
I am facing a vague issue while trying to make two process talk to each
other using named pipe.
read process
=========
The process which reads, basically creates FIFO using
mkfifo - ret_val = mkfifo(HALF_DUPLEX, 0666) func.
It then opens the pipe using open func - fd = open... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sharanbr
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi All,
I am facing a vague issue while trying to make two process talk to each
other using named pipe.
read process
=========
The process which reads, basically creates FIFO using
mkfifo - ret_val = mkfifo(HALF_DUPLEX, 0666);) func.
It then opens the pipe using open func - fd =... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sharanbr
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