mkfifo

Options

--mode=<MODE>, -m <MODE>

mkfifo-help-mode

-Z

mkfifo-help-selinux

--context=<CTX>

mkfifo-help-context

Examples

Create a named pipe at a given path:

mkfifo {{path/to/pipe}}

Send data through a named pipe and send the command to the background:

echo "{{Hello World}}" > {{path/to/pipe}} &

Receive data through a named pipe:

cat {{path/to/pipe}}

Share your terminal session in real-time:

mkfifo {{path/to/pipe}}; script {{[-f|--flush]}} {{path/to/pipe}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.