Christopher Howard <seehow at iphouse.com> wrote: > Ok, I'm working with bash. How do I send a text string between two > jobs. A book tells me something about named pipes, and I've checked > out the man page for mknod, but both the book and the man page tell > me little about what it's all about. Anyone here do this before? Are you talking about something as simple as: command1 | command2 Or are you trying to do something more elaborate, such as setting up some sort of producer/consumer model. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */