Re: Sending an EOF to a named pipe

Stephen Gonedes wrote:
Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

< Daniel Ganek wrote:
I'm using named pipes in a bash script and I can't figure out how
to send an EOF so that the reader can exit.

I tried the obvious:

echo -e "\004" > mypipe

a stab in the dark says `echo -en "\004"' may help but doubtful. At ^Z may
work.

kill -l may help? Sighup? dunno.




Did you try looking over the "advanced bash scripting guide" available here (free):

http://tldp.org/guides.html

.

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