← Back to context Comment by luckman212 24 days ago would very much like to see a small example of how to create, consume, and destroy those FIFOs... 3 comments luckman212 Reply stouset 24 days ago https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/mkfifo.1.htmlPretty simple. This creates a named pipe. One end of a shell command redirects to it, one end redirects from it. rm when finished. akdev1l 24 days ago You can just use process substitutioncat <(secret-print my-secret) SoftTalker 24 days ago In a shell script situation, you'd typically trap EXIT and ERR and remove the fifo in the handler.
stouset 24 days ago https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/mkfifo.1.htmlPretty simple. This creates a named pipe. One end of a shell command redirects to it, one end redirects from it. rm when finished. akdev1l 24 days ago You can just use process substitutioncat <(secret-print my-secret) SoftTalker 24 days ago In a shell script situation, you'd typically trap EXIT and ERR and remove the fifo in the handler.
SoftTalker 24 days ago In a shell script situation, you'd typically trap EXIT and ERR and remove the fifo in the handler.
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.
You can just use process substitution
cat <(secret-print my-secret)
In a shell script situation, you'd typically trap EXIT and ERR and remove the fifo in the handler.