Reputation: 96716
If I do the following:
mkfifo fifo some_command < fifo
"some_command" doesn't get spawned before there is data fed through "fifo". How can resolve this without first having to send stuff down the fifo?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 524
Reputation: 7630
you can do
cat fifo | some_command
Upvotes: 1