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how to message daemon process - bash pipe as stdin
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| # create pipe, tail it, and read from stdin in a program | |
| mkfifo namedPipe; tail -f namedPipe | while true; do read msg; echo $msg; done; | |
| # now send messages from another shell | |
| echo "start" > namedPipe | |
| echo "stop" > namedPipe | |
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