✨ Updated scripts

scripts/wpipe.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-named-pipes-fifos-bash
+
+# To be used in conjunction with rpipe.sh (demonstrating mkfifo, or named pipes)
+
+pipe=/tmp/testpipe
+
+if [[ ! -p $pipe ]]; then
+    echo "Reader not running"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [[ "$1" ]]; then
+    echo "$1" > $pipe
+else
+    echo "Hello from $$" > $pipe
+fi
+
+# Example Output:
+# $ sh rpipe.sh &
+# [3] 23842
+# $ sh wpipe.sh
+# Hello from 23846
+# $ sh wpipe.sh
+# Hello from 23847
+# $ sh wpipe.sh
+# Hello from 23848
+# $ sh wpipe.sh quit
+# Reader exiting