use strict; use warnings; use FileHandle; # Create named pipe... my $pipe = "/tmp/mypipe"; system("ksh -c 'if [ ! -p $pipe ]; then mkfifo $pipe; fi'"); # Setup input process... open(IN, '|-', "cat - > $pipe") || die "Can't open IN process: $!"; IN->autoflush(1); # Setup output process... #open(OUT, '-|', "tail -f $pipe") || die "Can't open out process: $!"; open(OUT, '-|', "cat $pipe") || die "Can't open out process: $!"; OUT->autoflush(1); my $i=0; print STDERR "Sending input...\n"; print IN "This is message $i\n"; # Read output... print "Reading...\n"; my $line; while($line = ) { $i++; print $line; print IN "This is message $i\n"; sleep 1; }