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MKFIFO

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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NAME

mkfifo - make FIFOs (named pipes)

SYNOPSIS

mkfifo [,OPTION/]... ,NAME/...

DESCRIPTION

Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-m, --mode=,MODE/: set file permission bits to MODE, not a=rw - umask
-Z: set the SELinux security context to default type
--context[=,CTX/]: like -Z, or if CTX is specified then set the SELinux or SMACK security context to CTX
--help: display this help and exit
--version: output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report mkfifo translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.