Named Pipes... or how to get two separate applications to interact Recently, I've been working on an application (bash based) that could gather some information that I need from a host (network interfaces configuration, arp neighborgs, routing policy, pinging some other hosts, etc). Then I wondered that it would be good if I were able to connect to some hosts through SSH and run some commands on those hosts and save the output of those commands as part of the information of the first host. Like an information gatherer of sorts.
Look at how to create scripts that are able to record their output, trap and identify errors, and recover from errors and problems so that they either run correctly or fail with a suitable error message and report. Building scripts and running them au