[ILUG] plumbing

[Padraig Brady]

Ulysees wrote:
> thats exactly what i was thinking
> 
> i need something that writes to the stdin of program1 & program2
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dermot Daly" <dermot.daly at itsmobile.com>
> To: "ILUG" <ilug at linux.ie>
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 2:42 PM
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] plumbing
> 
> 
> Huh ?  Doesn't tee write to a file and stdout ?  - Doesn't this not just
> create a load of files called program1 program2....?

Just back from a meeting an I've quickly scanned many confus{ing,ed} answers.
To do something like:

               /prog1
infile - prog1
               \prog2

just:

mkfifo fifo1
prog3 < fifo1&
prog1 < infile |tee fifo1 | prog2

Padraig.