Reputation: 41193
I would like to write the same information to two pipes, but I don't want to wait for the first pipe to read. Here's an example
mkfifo one mkfifo two echo hi | tee one two & cat one & cat two &
cat one
does not start reading until cat two
is run. Is there a way to make cat one
run without waiting?
Upvotes: 3
Views: 1559
Reputation: 19727
Problem: Fifos are blocking until opened for reading. So just open a read FD on them:
mkfifo one two
echo hi | tee one two &
exec 3<one
exec 4<two
cat <&3
cat <&4
Upvotes: 1