Named Pipes
In computing, a named pipe (also FIFO for its behaviour) is an extension to the classical pipe concept on Unix and Unix-like systems, and is one of the methods of interprocess communication.
Instead of a conventional, unnamed, shell pipeline, a named pipeline is explicitly created using mknod or mkfifo, and two separate processes can access the pipeline by name.
For example, one can create a pipe, set up gzip to compress things piped to it
mkfifo pipe
gzip -9 -c < pipe > out
in a separate process, independently, one could perform
cat file > pipe
which would then perform the compression by gzip.
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