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In windows, can I redirect stdout to a (named) pipe in command line?
I am surprised that this has't been answered correctly already. There is indeed a UNC path assigned to named pipes by the system, accessible on any machine in the network, which can be used like a ...
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Shell pipes - the order of things
All commands in a pipeline are started simultaneously and run simultaneously – command 2 does not wait for command 1 to exit. Instead, pipelines rely on read operations blocking until the preceding ...
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named pipes apparently not working/responding?
This post seems to relate to your problem :
Cat to named pipe causes hang.
The relevant remarks are :
You need to have something reading from the FIFO
Ensure that the pipe is created with a large ...
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How to "tail" multiple pipe files or streams?
Note that I won't like to be suggested to use multitail. I've tried it, splitting screen in panes won't scale to dozens of servers which we have now.
How about -L option? It doesn't split screen.
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determining the named pipe that PuTTY's pageant is using
Start Pageant with the option --openssh-config pageant.conf. It will write an OpenSSH-compatible configuration file to the specified path, which you can later Include from your main OpenSSH config ...
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Default windows hidden files systems
Is there a way to lookup all the files contained in that partition?
Use the following PowerShell command:
[System.IO.Directory]::GetFiles("\\.\\pipe\\")
Source: How can I get a list of all ...
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ffmpeg waits to close the pipe in order to start processing data
I had the same issue in a slightly different context, and after much hair-pulling and deep-diving in the FFMPEG code, I finally found the reason for this hanging of the input pipe: FFMPEG tries to ...
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Can't delete, chown or chmod file even as root
It's an item with nonsense permissions and 41284 hardlinks. It's a named pipe with alleged size of 3.7 GiB, which is 3.7 GiB larger than a named pipe should be (and it wasn't supposed to be ...
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