On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 05:37:55PM +0100, David Ludvigsson wrote: > However, a named pipe makes no different a plain file, when the pipe is empty > (all current commands in pipe are executed), lftp exits (and disconnects > from remote site) instead of waiting for the pipe to fill again (and > stay connected).
Make the pipe always open for writing, like this: mkfifo fifo exec 3<>fifo lftp -f fifo & echo help > fifo -- Alexander.
