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From: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Bi-directional pipe
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:50:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4486CBA2.9030501@yahoo.fr> (raw)

Hi,

Is there a way to make a bi-directional pipe in zsh?
That is, something like: foo | bar doing implicitly bar | foo, so
foo stdin <- bar stdout and
foo stdout <- bar stdin

Here is an example of what I want to do:

#!/bin/zsh

mkfifo fifo
exec 4>&1
(
exec 0<fifo
rm fifo
RES=0
while [ "$RES" -lt 10 ]; do
    echo "$RES+1"
    read RES
    echo "$RES" >&4
done
) | bc -q > fifo


The script enclosed between parenthesis writes and read to/from bc.
This approach uses a FIFO, so I would have hoped for a solution to
avoid needing a writable part of the filesystem ;-)

Maybe there is a magic incantation I can substitute to the | in order to
have a bi-directional pipe, or some function to create a pipe that I would
redirect to.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-- 
Guillaume


             reply	other threads:[~2006-06-07 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-07 12:50 Guillaume Chazarain [this message]
2006-06-07 14:56 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-06-07 15:41   ` Guillaume Chazarain
2006-06-09  3:28 ` Bart Schaefer
2006-06-09  9:06   ` Guillaume Chazarain
2006-06-09  9:51     ` Bart Schaefer
2006-06-11 15:06       ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-06-11 19:24         ` Bart Schaefer
2006-06-09  9:33   ` Peter Stephenson

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