Questions tagged [fifo]
Questions about FIFO - first-in first-out special file, also known named pipe
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Make GNU Parallel not delay before executing arguments from STDIN
GNU Parallel, without any command line options, allows you to easily parallelize a command whose last argument is determined by a line of STDIN:
$ seq 3 | parallel echo
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1
3
Note that parallel does ...
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concurrent processing in bash using process expansion, and redirection
Apart from possible races that have to be controlled by using proper synchronisation, it's possible in bash to feed a data source concurrently into multiple pipelines and collect all their outputs ...
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Two named PIPEs (PIPE_in/PIPE_out) connected with `tail -f` | String sent to PIPE_in doesn't reach PIPE_out
1.Create named PIPEs, pipe_in and pipe_out by running:
$ mkfifo pipe_in
$ mkfifo pipe_out
2.Connect pipe_in to pipe_out:
TERM0: $ tail -f pipe_in > pipe_out
3.Send string hello world! to ...
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What characterizes a file in Linux/Unix?
What characterizes a file in Linux/Unix?
A file can have many types: regular file, directory, symlink, device file, socket, pipe, fifo, and more that I miss. For example, a symlink:
$ sudo file /...
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grep --exclude option doesn't always skip named pipes
I have a directory that contains, among other files, 3 named pipes: FIFO, FIFO1, and FIFO11. If I try something like
grep mypattern *
in this directory, grep hangs forever on the named pipes, so I ...
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How do I make systemd sockets close when service is stopped?
I'm currently trying to make a systemd service with two Fifo sockets. These sockets map to stdout and stdin of the application. I'm currently using the following configuration files.
foo.service
[...
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Bash: join pipes without deadlock
I want to list a bunch of filenames via find, pipe them through a utility (let's call this util) which outputs a new name for each input name, and then rename each file from the old name to the new.
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How to Pipe Segment of Heredoc Output to Local File
I am issuing a command to a remote device in order to run a tcpdump on one of it's interfaces, but capture the output to a local .pcap file on my Ubuntu VM. The command that I'm issuing is as follows:
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How to Pass Multiple Commands to Remote Device via SSHPass [duplicate]
I'm trying to setup a method in which I can run remote tcpdumps on some of my devices, and save the file to my local machine for analysis (I don't want to save the file on the remote device and then ...
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Using exec 3> to keep a named pipe open
The process reading from a named pipe will normally terminate when the process writing to the pipe finishes writing (sends an EOF). In certain situations you may have different processes writing ...
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How to trigger a command after named pipe closes?
How can I execute some command after the named pipe has been readout in other end. I was trying to use trap. But nothing happens. My script is something like below.
#!/bin/sh
cleanup()
{
echo "...
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How to let process continue running even after disconnecting ssh?
I have a Linux based router that I’m trying to “control” with a home automation controller. On my automation controller I’m able to utilize a ‘two way strings’ driver to send a string to the Linux ...
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Multiple fifos over SSH
Shell script allow multiple file descriptors (up to 9 for POSIX compliance, but even more for bash):
$ install -m 755 /dev/stdin /tmp/test <<\EOF
#!/bin/sh
echo hi1 >&1
echo hi2 >&...
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How can I stop ffmpeg from quitting when it reaches the end of a named pipe?
I'm using a program which continuously writes MPEG-TS video data to a file while it's running. I'm expecting it to run continuously for many days.
I want to use ffmpeg to transcode this video data ...
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How to read screen's named pipe?
For curiosity, I wanted to read a GNU screen session's named pipe.
$ screen -ls
There is a screen on:
59750.hello (Detached)
1 Socket in /var/run/screen/S-gergely.
And indeed there is a ...
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Knowing when bash is done running a command through a FIFO pipe
I'm trying to link a web-based terminal with bash.
My current attempt to do so is spawning a shell pointing a FIFO pipe to its input, like this:
Terminal 1
$ mkfifo pipe
$ bash <> pipe
file1 ...
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Pipe to fifo from script
I want to send commands from a script to twinkle (the VOIP software). I thought I could do this with a named pipe so I have created one
mkfifo phonecmd
If I start twinkle and pipe tail from the ...
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How can I make named pipes atomic or is there an alternative? [duplicate]
Reopen voters: flock() doesn't work on named pipes, this is not a dupe.
I was trying to do the following with named pipes:
mkfifo example.txt
( printf "456"; printf "abc"; printf "\n"; ) > ...
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How can I know whether writing to a named pipe would block?
I want to write to a named pipe only if it already has a reader. Currently, I'm using timeout to detect whether the attempt to write to the pipe blocked, like so:
#! /usr/bin/env bash
rm -f pipe
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Cleaning/flushing of named pipe
I create FIFO to communicate between unrelated processes. In my project there is no way to break infinite loop in which the program runs. So, I can't unlink the FIFO.
I thought that I could remove ...
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Retaining data in a named pipe after an incomplete read access
Prerequisites:
$ mkfifo pipe1
If several lines are put into pipe1
$ (echo line 1; echo line 2) > pipe1
all the lines can be read in another terminal by
$ cat pipe1
line 1
line 2
So far all ...
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Is it possible to remount a filesystem read-only, if it has open fifos?
If a file is still open for writing on the root file system, for example, the filesystem cannot be remounted read-only for a clean shutdown.
At least this is true for regular files. But what about ...
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Writing on a FIFO with multiple processes
I need to make a named pipe with mkfifo. For instance:
mkfifo mypipe
I'm going to have a systemd service (a simple shell script) that read from the pipe and I will write on the same pipe calling ...
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Split output and rejoin again with named pipes on linux
My question is related to https://serverfault.com/questions/171095/how-do-i-join-two-named-pipes-into-single-input-stream-in-linux but with a slightly more convoluted setup.
I have three programs, ...
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Named pipes, file descriptors and EOF
Two windows, same user, with bash prompts. In window-1 type:
$ mkfifo f; exec <f
So bash is now attempting to read from file descriptor 0, which is mapped to named pipe f. In window-2 type:
$ ...
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using fifo for daemons
While studying from Richard Stevens' book Unix network programming,
I came across the following lines that speak about using FIFO between a client and a server.
Client processes are started and ...
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Why stdout won't flush when redirecting input from a fifo?
I have a program that displays a prompt message and waits for the user to input some text.
$ program
Input a line of text: <aaaa>
Some more output.
$
Now, I also want to be able to provide ...
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bash: Reading a full record from a fifo
I wish to send a command to process A, from process B, via a FIFO.
The command will be a word or a sentence, but wholly contained on a "\n" terminated line - but could, in general, be a multi-line ...
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Linux AIO / io_submit / io_getevents / on fifo (named pipes)
I have to write a lot of data to a pipe. Can I use the Linux calls
io_submit/io_getevents for writing to Named Pipes or it is defined only for regular files. I tried finding any document which ...
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Can FIFO or other thing not block on writer's access, and instead just drop data?
FIFO is problematic in use because both reader and writer have to open it – if one of them is being late, the other one is blocked inside the operating system.
I have to implement a publishing ...
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SIGINT received by pipeline consumer is ignored by default?
I have a pipeline like so:
foo | bar
if I issue a SIGINT in terminal (in the form of ctrl+c), the second process (bar) will receive the SIGINT, but it just seems to ignore it, almost certainly ...
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Creating a tarball from named pipes using tar or python's tarfile module
I didn't realize this would be so difficult. I'm just using tar. I have two pieces of data, one's a large payload of pcap data, the other is some additional metadata in the form of a python pickled ...
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Programmatically closing pipeline / exiting [closed]
I have a pipeline like so:
tail -n0 -f "${my_input}" | ql_receiver_lock_holder | while read line; do
echo "$line" >> "${my_output}";
# xxx: how can I programmatically close the ...
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Avoid overwriting existing named pipe
I have this command:
ql_receiver_lock_holder > "${my_named_pipe}"
will it overwrite the named pipe if it already exists? Is the best way to avoid overwriting it to simply use this:
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Change buffer size of named pipe
I hear that for named pipes, writes that are smaller than about 512bytes are atomic (the writes won't interleave).
Is there a way to increase that amount for a specific named pipe?
something like:
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Read and write to same netcat tcp connection
I have this pipeline:
( tail -f ${named_pipe} | nc localhost ${port} | ql_conditional_release &> "$HOME/debug.log" & disown; ) &> /dev/null
so I am reading from the netcat ...
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How does a temporary file differs from a pipe? [duplicate]
When one sends data (say stdout) to a temporary file, it is likely that something would be done with that data (the temporary file will be used as stdin for some process), then the temporary file will ...
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How does a FIFO (named pipe) differs from a regular pipe (unnamed pipe)? [duplicate]
How does a FIFO (named pipe) differs from a regular pipe (|)? As I understand from Wikipedia, unlike a regular pipe, a FIFO pipe "keeps living" after the process has ended and can be deleted sometime ...
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Process substitution vs FIFO (created by `makefifo`)
As far as I know, process substitution in bash and FIFO (created by mkfifo) are both named pipes. They both seem viable solutions for communication between processes. I was wondering how to decide ...
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When does a command in a process substitution or FIFO start and finish running?
When does a command in a process substitution in bash start and finish running?
E.g.
when does command1 in command2 >(command1) start and finish running respectively?
when does command3 in ...
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What is the purpose of using a FIFO vs a temporary file or a pipe?
From APUE
FIFOs can be used to duplicate an output stream in a series of shell
commands. This prevents writing the data to an intermediate disk
file (similar to using pipes to avoid intermediate ...
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Under what conditions exactly does SIGPIPE happen?
Say we have a named pipe called fifo, and we're reading and writing to it from two different shells. Consider these two examples:
shell 1$ echo foo > fifo
<hangs>
shell 2$ cat fifo
foo
shell ...
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How to make SOCAT send each character from STDIO?
I have the following scenario:
I have a Windows in a VM, which has an exposed serial port to a host pipe (named-pipe / fifo).
The host pipe is at /tmp/win-serial-com3.
On my host OS, I'm using ...
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Capture data going through named pipe
Is there a practical and easy way to capture data going through a named pipe? I've tried wireshark, but it only accepts a specific data format. I've also tried cat, but I get mixed results.
Thank you
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How can FFmpeg record from FIFO without an “invalid data” error?
I have an internet calling infrastructure that can result in audio being played through speakers in the following way:
aplay -r 48000 -c 1 -f S16_LE - < contact/call_out
Here, call_out is a FIFO ...
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What methods exist for capturing stdout into a buffer that is automatically cleared on read?
I want to store the stdout from a process into a buffer and have the buffer emptied once read, FIFO style.
I know that I can pipe the stdout, but the pipe/file will keep growing and contain data that ...
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How to send commands to fbi over SSH?
I'm using fbi to display some images. fbi has some keyboard controls, like +, -, Page Up, Page Down, etc. to control the images.
Instead of using keyboard, I want to send these control commands over ...
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How to save an output of airodump-ng to a file?
I've tried to get a file from airodump-ng via redirecting a output stream via:
airodump-ng mon0 2>&1 | tee file.txt
but this appends to a file rather than rewrites it. So after that I've ...
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Pass handle to stdin down pipeline
Say I have
node foo.js | node bar.js
is there a way to pass a handle on foo's stdin to bar?
I have a rare case where I'd like to communicate backwards in the pipeline.
At the least I know that I ...
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Store the most recent N MBs of a stream?
I currently use wget or curl to download a continuous AAC-stream. I would like to limit what's stored on disk to the most recent N MB. In other words, some kind of size limited FIFO-buffer (I guess?). ...
