BASH named pipe locking up

I don't understand why this is happening. I've been working with this same command for a long time and now, suddenly, it's started locking up.

mkfifo ./pipe
echo "test" >./pipe

What can I do to stop this from locking u开发者_JAVA百科p?

Read from the FIFO.

It's not locked up. It's waiting for something to read from the pipe. Execute

cat < ./pipe

in another window, and it will print out the test string you put into the pipe, and then your echo will exit.

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