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Question

Is it possible to pipe to a named pipe using the command prompt

dir >"\\.\pipe\my_named_pipe"

my_named_pipe being a pipe created by a win32 application

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
HANDLE pipe= CreateNamedPipe("\\\\.\\pipe\\my_named_pipe",PIPE_ACCESS_INBOUND,PIPE_TYPE_BYTE,1,500,500,NMPWAIT_USE_DEFAULT_WAIT,NULL);

char* buf = new char[501];
ReadFile(pipe,buf,500,NULL);
std::cout << buf << std::endl;
}

Answer 1

I tried on windows XP

dir >\\.\pipe\my_named_pipe

and it worked properly.

Answer 2

According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe the answer is no for Windows and yes for Unix. But Windows can run Unix so it depends if you want to run Unix Services. See for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX