Is it possible to pipe to a named pipe using the command prompt
dir >"\\.\pipe\my_named_pipe"
my_named_pipe being a pipe created by a win32 application
#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
HANDLE pipe= CreateNamedPipe("\\\\.\\pipe\\my_named_pipe",PIPE_ACCESS_INBOUND,PIPE_TYPE_BYTE,1,500,500,NMPWAIT_USE_DEFAULT_WAIT,NULL);
char* buf = new char[501];
ReadFile(pipe,buf,500,NULL);
std::cout << buf << std::endl;
}
I tried on windows XP
dir >\\.\pipe\my_named_pipe
and it worked properly.