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Is it possible to use mkfifo (named pipes) in Linux to copy files?
For example: I am extracting files from tar archive and I want them to be moved immediately to another location.
files archive mkfifo
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Is it possible to use mkfifo (named pipes) in Linux to copy files?
For example: I am extracting files from tar archive and I want them to be moved immediately to another location.
files archive mkfifo
you can usetar -C
to specify a location. unclear how you want fifo to come into play here.
– frostschutz
yesterday
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Is it possible to use mkfifo (named pipes) in Linux to copy files?
For example: I am extracting files from tar archive and I want them to be moved immediately to another location.
files archive mkfifo
Is it possible to use mkfifo (named pipes) in Linux to copy files?
For example: I am extracting files from tar archive and I want them to be moved immediately to another location.
files archive mkfifo
files archive mkfifo
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you can usetar -C
to specify a location. unclear how you want fifo to come into play here.
– frostschutz
yesterday
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you can usetar -C
to specify a location. unclear how you want fifo to come into play here.
– frostschutz
yesterday
you can use
tar -C
to specify a location. unclear how you want fifo to come into play here.– frostschutz
yesterday
you can use
tar -C
to specify a location. unclear how you want fifo to come into play here.– frostschutz
yesterday
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You can't use mkfifo
to copy or move files, no. mkfifo
creates a named pipe. You can use a pipe to arrange for data to go to a different place, and occasionally a named pipe is the only way or is more convenient. You can find some solutions that use mkfifo
on this site. But a pipe isn't usually useful if you only want data to end up in a different place: for that, redirection is enough.
If you want to extract files from a tar archive and put them in a different place than the path inside the archive, named pipes aren't going to help you at all. Instead, use the --transform
option of GNU tar or the -s
option of BSD tar or pax to rewrite the file paths during the extraction.
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You can't use mkfifo
to copy or move files, no. mkfifo
creates a named pipe. You can use a pipe to arrange for data to go to a different place, and occasionally a named pipe is the only way or is more convenient. You can find some solutions that use mkfifo
on this site. But a pipe isn't usually useful if you only want data to end up in a different place: for that, redirection is enough.
If you want to extract files from a tar archive and put them in a different place than the path inside the archive, named pipes aren't going to help you at all. Instead, use the --transform
option of GNU tar or the -s
option of BSD tar or pax to rewrite the file paths during the extraction.
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You can't use mkfifo
to copy or move files, no. mkfifo
creates a named pipe. You can use a pipe to arrange for data to go to a different place, and occasionally a named pipe is the only way or is more convenient. You can find some solutions that use mkfifo
on this site. But a pipe isn't usually useful if you only want data to end up in a different place: for that, redirection is enough.
If you want to extract files from a tar archive and put them in a different place than the path inside the archive, named pipes aren't going to help you at all. Instead, use the --transform
option of GNU tar or the -s
option of BSD tar or pax to rewrite the file paths during the extraction.
add a comment |
You can't use mkfifo
to copy or move files, no. mkfifo
creates a named pipe. You can use a pipe to arrange for data to go to a different place, and occasionally a named pipe is the only way or is more convenient. You can find some solutions that use mkfifo
on this site. But a pipe isn't usually useful if you only want data to end up in a different place: for that, redirection is enough.
If you want to extract files from a tar archive and put them in a different place than the path inside the archive, named pipes aren't going to help you at all. Instead, use the --transform
option of GNU tar or the -s
option of BSD tar or pax to rewrite the file paths during the extraction.
You can't use mkfifo
to copy or move files, no. mkfifo
creates a named pipe. You can use a pipe to arrange for data to go to a different place, and occasionally a named pipe is the only way or is more convenient. You can find some solutions that use mkfifo
on this site. But a pipe isn't usually useful if you only want data to end up in a different place: for that, redirection is enough.
If you want to extract files from a tar archive and put them in a different place than the path inside the archive, named pipes aren't going to help you at all. Instead, use the --transform
option of GNU tar or the -s
option of BSD tar or pax to rewrite the file paths during the extraction.
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you can use
tar -C
to specify a location. unclear how you want fifo to come into play here.– frostschutz
yesterday