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.TH DPIPE 1 "February 23, 2004" "Virtual Distributed Ethernet"
.SH NAME
dpipe \- bi-directional pipe command
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dpipe 
[ 
.I command
[
.I args
]
]
.BI =
[
.I command
[
.I args
]
]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBdpipe\fP is a general tool to run two commands diverting the
standard output of the first command into the standard input of the second
and viceversa.
It is the bi-directional
extension of the \fB|\fP (pipe) syntax used by all the shells.
The \fB=\fP has been chosen as a metaphore of two parallel communication lines
between the commands.
.br
It has been written as a tool for the Virtual Distributed Ethernet.
.SH OPTIONS
no options.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR vde_switch (1),
.BR vde_plug (1),
.BR vdeq (1).
.br
.SH AUTHOR
VDE is a project by Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it>