MKFIFO(1)

📦 version 0.12.0, in arch rolling

🎀 mkfifo(1) — General Commands Manual, folded in cute 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the mkfifo(1) page from the General Commands Manual. This one is short, iconic, and lowkey all about making a FIFO with a name. Let's go 💖

💖 NAME 💖

mkfifo - Create a FIFO with the given name.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mkfifo [OPTION]... NAME...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Create a FIFO with the given name. That's literally the whole job, no cap: hand it a name, get a FIFO with that name. Periodt. 💅

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

  • -m, --mode <MODE> — file permissions for the fifo
  • -Z — set the SELinux security context to default type
  • --context[=<CTX>] — like -Z, or if CTX is specified then set the SELinux or SMACK security context to CTX
  • -h, --help — Print help
  • -V, --version — Print version

⭐ VERSION ⭐

the version string is literally:

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

💖 that's the whole page, bestie — source/version v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0, dated 2026-09-17, signing off 🫶

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