There's a very simple system tool that clicked on about 50 simultaneous lightbul...

ric2b · on March 22, 2020

The man page for it is awful, 0 explanation of what it actually does.

It allows you to create pipes as files! So you can do:

`echo 'hello world' > mypipe` on one terminal and `cat < mypipe` on another!

Very neat, I'm sure I'll find uses for it in the future.

ganzuul · on March 15, 2020

I learned about it through a plugin for irssi, which lets you have a list of users in an IRC channel in a tmux window partition.