Have the output of your script directed to named pipe That looks like a file

I mentioned the Old Perl Camel Book had such an example. The code is still out there ....

http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlipc/named_pipes.html > Have people done that with the shell? I'm sure they have ... with bash

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