Package backtickname-1.3-dmacks20040329-1

The y utility is used to create systems of pipes and fifos (named pipes) more complicated than standard shell syntax allows. A single invocation of y has the following effect: a temporary fifo is created; the name of this fifo is printed on standard output; and y exits, leaving a child process in the background to copy any data received on standard input to the fifo. The net effect of this is that you can use the expression `subcommand | y` anywhere on a command line that you would use a filename, and the output of subcommand will be piped appropriately to create the illusion that `subcommand | y` is a file, containing the output of subcommand. This version has the ability to specify a mask for the filename.