On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 11:19:43AM +0000, Philipp Schafft wrote: > > pipe=/tmp/testpipe > > There are tools to make tempfiles such as mktemp(1). You can also > consider using $$. > > mkfifo $pipe mktemp makes actual files, not pipes/fifos. -- Paul Martin <pm at nowster.me.uk>