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luckman212today at 4:26 AM1 replyview on HN

would very much like to see a small example of how to create, consume, and destroy those FIFOs...


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stousettoday at 4:29 AM

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/mkfifo.1.html

Pretty simple. This creates a named pipe. One end of a shell command redirects to it, one end redirects from it. rm when finished.

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