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sockin(1)		     General Commands Manual		       sockin(1)

NAME
     sockin  --  a  utility for piping textual program output into a UNIX domain
     socket.

SYNOPSIS
     sockin [-t timeout] socket
     sockin [-d] [-t timeout] socket command arg ...

DESCRIPTION
     When executed without a command argument sockin accepts text on  stdin  and
     writes it to socket which must be a UNIX domain socket.

     In  the  second form, command specifies a command to execute for which it's
     input and output will be redirected to socket

OPTIONS
     sockin accepts the following options.

     -d 	 When executing a command this option makes the command become a
		 daemon after redirecting it's output to the socket

     -t timeout  The timeout in seconds to wait for the socket to be  ready  be-
		 fore  giving up. The default is to give up immediately on fail-
		 ure.

SEE ALSO
     bsnmp-regex(8)

AUTHOR
     Stef Walter <stef@memberwebs.com>

bsnmp-regex			   April, 2006			       sockin(1)

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