mkfifo - Man Page

• 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 path/to/pipe

tldr.sh

mkfifo [OPTION]... NAME...

Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-m,  --mode=MODE

set file permission bits to MODE, not a=rw - umask

-Z

set the SELinux security context to default type

--context[=CTX]

like -Z, or if CTX is specified then set the SELinux or SMACK security context to CTX

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Written by David MacKenzie.

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mkfifo(3)

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mkfifo>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) mkfifo invocation'

fifo(7), mkfifo(3), perlipc(1), pipe(7), rsyslog.conf(5), siril(1), trend(1).