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There's a very simple system tool that clicked on about 50 simultaneous lightbulbs in my brain after only 10 minutes of playing with it: mkfifo
by beefbroccoli 7y ago
There's a very simple system tool that clicked on about 50 simultaneous lightbulbs in my brain after only 10 minutes of playing with it: mkfifo
- ganzuul 7y agoI learned about it through a plugin for irssi, which lets you have a list of users in an IRC channel in a tmux window partition.
- ric2b 7y agoThe man page for it is awful, 0 explanation of what it actually does. It allows you to create pipes as files! So you can do: `echo 'hello world' > mypipe` on one terminal and `cat < mypipe` on another! Very neat, I'm sure I'll find uses for it in the future.