I am in a similar situation as in this post
But I couln't get the solution provided there to work in my situation as the answer seems related to that question only.
In particular, I couldnt understand what was the purpose of
cat my.fifo | nc remotehost.tld 10000
In my case, I have a process running and waiting for input. how can I send input to that process using named pipes?
I've tried echo 'h' > /proc/PID/fd/0
it just displays 'h' on the process' window.
Best Answer
Just ignore the lines containing
nc
, the OP in this questions wants to use it to transfer data over the network vianc
.That leaves you with:
Now you can sent data to your program with
If you are done, terminate your program, issue the command
kill $mypid
to get rid of the dummy process to keep the FIFO open andrm yourfifo
to get rid of the named pipe.