fifo is just like pipe, but there is a name/filesystem entry for that. you could assume that fifo is splitting the standard program1 | programs into two parts using the named fifo.
In this case it depends how your program is doing the processing, whether it processes one file each after downloading or at once after downloading them all. On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 17:06, Mag Gam <magaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Currently I download a file (which is about 700MB) from wget and place > it in my /tmp and do my task on the file. If I have to work with 10 of > these fies at a single time I have to have 10 files in /tmp; > > I was wondering if anyone has a clever idea how I can avoid having all > 10 in /tmp and have a pipe or a "virtual file" so the program things > there is actually a file there. Is it possible to fake out the OS > like that? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/w2z1cbd6f831004260436u90c45e45r9daf9d0cb0717...@mail.gmail.com > >
