MKFIFO
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: June 2012
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NAME
mkfifo - make FIFOs (named pipes)SYNOPSIS
mkfifo [OPTION]... NAME...DESCRIPTION
Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -m, --mode=MODE
- set file permission bits to MODE, not a=rw - umask
- -Z, --context=CTX
- set the SELinux security context of each NAME to CTX
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.REPORTING BUGS
Report mkfifo bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.orgGNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report mkfifo translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
mkfifo(3)The full documentation for mkfifo is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and mkfifo programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- info coreutils aqmkfifo invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.
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