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Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:

> On 3/6/20 3:44 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > a pipe is a FIFO.
>
> Hum....
>
> Does that mean that I should be able to replace pipes in my shell 
> commands with a collections of FIFOs?

Absolutely:

	$ mkfifo the_fifo
	$ ls -l  the_fifo
	prw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 0 Mar 10 09:28 the_fifo
	$ echo foo > the_fifo & sleep 1 ; cat the_fifo 
	[1] 3721
	foo
	[1]+  Done                    echo foo > the_fifo

As you stated, not that you'd want to do that, but you can.

Arnold