John McKown wrote:
> You can't. It is like netcat - communications is unidirectional.
...
> What you'd like would be more like a bidirectional pipe,
> if there were such a thing. IIRC, "pipes" in UNIX are unidirectional.
...
> Perhaps a <> symbol?
>
> cmd1 <> cmd2
Time for a little duct tape for those leaky garden hoses, eh?
What we need is he-man pipelining akin to CMS Pipelines, like
pipe L: cmd1 | cmd2 | L:
which clearly lets cmd1 feed cmd2 and vice versa,
but with more syntactic clarity than a "<>" symbol.
-- Rick;
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