Re: how to smoke from a fifo pipe

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You open and read from the fifo just like any other file. If you are writing to a fifo, you probably want to use autoflush:

use IO::Handle;

open (FIFO, ">>fifo") || die;
FIFO->autoflush(1);

This presumes a named pipe "fifo" already exists in the same directory.