The 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

The 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.