MKFIFO(1)

MKFIFO(1) 🎀 from User Contributed Perl Documentation

🌸 NAME 🌸

mkfifo — make named pipes. bestie, that's literally the whole job: named pipes, made by this icon. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mkfifo "-m mode" filename ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so mkfifo creates one or more named pipes, in the exact order you list them, with the mode you give. no cap. 🫶

If no mode is given, it creates them with mode 0666, modified by the umask. That's the default vibe. 🌈

💅 OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS 💅

• -m — the mode the fifo should be created with. Numbers must be three octal digits (as for chmod(1)). Symbolic modes, specified the way you can for chmod(1) — like "g+w" — are also acceptable. ✨
• filename ... — one or more fifo names to create. 🎀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jeffrey S. Haemer and Louis Krupp. 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• chmod(1)
• umask(1)
• mkfifo(2)

and that's the whole page, bestie — this cutie is perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15. mwah 💋✨