writing to a file via a named pipe

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

Hi, I havent had the chance to research this much and it probably is a very simple one to answer. We have a log file to which we write Errors from different tasks to via a named pipe. In a shell script its as simple as saying: openpipe xxx.fifo

echo "ERROR : ..." >> xxx.fifo
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How would I accomplish the same in perl. I do know of the print statememnt part. trying to figure out how to do the redirection. thanks for the help.

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Re: writing to a file via a named pipe by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 26, 2009 at 22:28 UTC
`open(PIPE, ">> xxx.fifo") or die "Can't append to 'xxx.fifo': $!"; # time passes print PIPE "ERROR : ...\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: writing to a file via a named pipe by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 26, 2009 at 22:37 UTC
If you have more questions like this, I highly recommend perlopentut.	[reply]
Re^2: writing to a file via a named pipe by Anonymous Monk on Jan 27, 2009 at 19:27 UTC
supposing i want to write to a pre-existing pipe, how do i do that. the perlopentut dosent seem to be clear on that. thanks	[reply]
Re^3: writing to a file via a named pipe by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 27, 2009 at 19:53 UTC
If the pipe is a named pipe, you can just open it like any other file (except that seeking will not work, I guess).	[reply]
Re^4: writing to a file via a named pipe by Anonymous Monk on Jan 29, 2009 at 15:54 UTC
Re^4: writing to a file via a named pipe by Anonymous Monk on Jan 29, 2009 at 17:25 UTC
Re^5: writing to a file via a named pipe by Anonymous Monk on Jan 29, 2009 at 17:30 UTC
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