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<html> <head> <title>mkfifo</title> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="mkfifo"> </head> <body BGCOLOR="#ffffff" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#0000ff" ALINK="#0000ff" TEXT="#000000"> <center> <h1><b>mkfifo</b></h1></center> <PRE> <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/MKFIFO">MKFIFO(1)</A></STRONG> User Commands <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/MKFIFO">MKFIFO(1)</A></STRONG> NAME mkfifo - make FIFOs (named pipes) SYNOPSIS mkfifo [OPTION]... NAME... DESCRIPTION Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -m, --mode=MODE set file permission bits to MODE, not a=rw - umask -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 --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR Written by David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report mkfifo translation bugs to <https://translationpro- ject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO <STRONG><A HREF="/man3/mkfifo">mkfifo(3)</A></STRONG> Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mkfifo> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) mkfifo invocation' GNU coreutils 8.30 September 2019 <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/MKFIFO">MKFIFO(1)</A></STRONG></PRE> <center> <h6>Man Pages Copyright Respective Owners. Site Copyright (C) 1994 - 2025 <a href="http://www.he.net">Hurricane Electric</a>. All Rights Reserved.</h6></center> </body> </html>