@darius Yes! Pipes never cease to amaze :) I once attempted to make a script to do system monitoring on remote systems by creating a FIFO named pipe file on the remove system, running commands like vmstat and having them dump to that pipe file (formatted with awk), and cat-ing the whole thing across an SSH link to a local named pipe. Then you could build a tree structure reading and writing those pipe files down to one master node...it worked alright but it was quite insane :D