Mag Gam wrote:
> 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
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 07:36:05AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> ...
> 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?
I'm not
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 downloadi
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