Try mkfifo: window1\> mkfifo mypipe window1\> cat > mypipe window2\> cat mypipe now, type something in window 1, and it appears in window 2. Jeremy On Thursday 07 September 2006 5:04 pm, Christopher Howard 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? > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list