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            1 .TH BLIND-FROM-NAMED 1 blind
            2 .SH NAME
            3 blind-from-named - Receive a file descriptor
            4 .SH SYNOPSIS
            5 .B blind-from-named
            6 [-t
            7 .IR decisecs ]
            8 [-a]
            9 ([-f
           10 .IR fd ]
           11 .I path
           12 .RI [ command \ ...]
           13 |
           14 .IR path )
           15 .SH DESCRIPTION
           16 .B blind-from-named
           17 connects to a
           18 .BR unix (7)
           19 socket with the filename
           20 .I path
           21 and received a file descriptor.
           22 .P
           23 If a
           24 .I command
           25 is specified, the received file descriptor set to
           26 stdin, and the process executes to the specified
           27 .IR commmand ,
           28 otherwise, the input from the received file descriptor
           29 is sent to stdout.
           30 .SH OPTIONS
           31 .TP
           32 .B -a
           33 Rather than binding to a filename, create and abstract
           34 address, starting with a NUL byte followed by
           35 .I path
           36 and padded with NUL bytes until the end of the address.
           37 .TP
           38 .BR -f \ \fIfd\fP
           39 Assign the file descriptor number
           40 .I fd
           41 to the received file descriptor, rather than as
           42 stdin.
           43 .TP
           44 .BR -t \ \fIdecisecs\fP
           45 Try to connect to the socket for at most
           46 .I decisecs
           47 deciseconds, trying once per decisecond. (Default is 10.)
           48 .SH RATIONALE
           49 The pipeline construction, in even advanced, shells
           50 are not flexible enough to do all kinds of pipelinings
           51 that are necessary when doing complicated effects with
           52 .BR blind (7).
           53 For example, this is necessary to pipe video into
           54 two processes pipelines using
           55 .BR tee (1)
           56 and then using the end of both pipelines as the in
           57 input to the process, like inverse multiplexing.
           58 .SH SEE ALSO
           59 .BR blind (7),
           60 .BR blind-to-named (1),
           61 .BR blind-tee (1)
           62 .SH AUTHORS
           63 Mattias Andrée
           64 .RI < maandree@kth.se >