On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:20 PM, 'Marco Ciampa' via asciidoc <
[email protected]> wrote:

> That is really interesting since I though that a FIFO was a PIPE (an
> anonymous PIPE) but evidently I was wrong (again)...
>

I learned something too! As it turns out, you need to handle a FIFO (named
pipe) differently than the STDIN pipe.

When using a named pipe, it is necessary to specify an output file.
Otherwise, it will try to write to /dev/fd, which is clearly not a
writeable location.

-Dan

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