non-blocking IPC in shell
$ mkfifo fifo1
$ exec 5<>fifo1
$ awk '{print "here:" $2}' <&5 &
[1] 541
$ echo "one two three" >&5
here:two
$ echo "four five six" >&5
here:fiveWritten by Amalrik Maia
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