PLUMBING(1) PLUMBING(1)
NAME
plumbing - listen to plumb port and execute commands to
attend messages
SYNOPSIS
plumbing [ -v ] port cmd [ arg... ]
DESCRIPTION
Plumbing spawns a child process to listen for messages in
the plumber(8) port given as an argument. For each message
received, it executes cmd as a shell command. The command
has the environment variable $msg defined to contain the
plumbed message data.
Flag -v makes the program verbose, to report messages
received.
Note that in the octopus using ports(4) is preferred to
plumber(8) for reporting events, because it does not require
plumber ports to be created in advance.
EXAMPLE
Execute o/newterm each time a message is sent to the netget
plumber port.
o/plumbing netget { /dis/o/newterm $msg & }
SOURCE
/usr/octopus/port/plumbing.b
SEE ALSO
plumber(8).