Having child filter data that parent put in a pipe

blreed has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When using Fork to work with pipes, can you have the child work on the data in the pipe as the parent is filling it? For instance, I'm spooling date from Oracle into the pipe and would like to FTP the data as soon as it hits the pipe. Any suggestions?

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Re: Pipes by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Aug 05, 2002 at 21:56 UTC
You could pipe to a server process that ships the data over a tcp socket, or you could simply print the data to a file. For ftp retrieval, the file seems like the best way. Take a look at POE for a whole candy store full of goodies for this kind of problem. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: Having child filter data that parent put in a pipe by fsn (Friar) on Aug 06, 2002 at 08:10 UTC
Check out ftp put without a local file for tips on sending data over ftp without having to create a temporary file.	[reply]