Is it possible to open a named pipe with command line in windows?

Question

I want to interact with the pipe manually , but so far I can only do this in the programe,which is not very intuitive.

The effect I want to achieve is a little similar to :

telnet localhost 3306

tail -f file.txt

Anyone get my idea?

user_4193667 · Answer

From PowerShell

PS>$pipe = New-Object System.IO.Pipes.NamedPipeServerStream("DummyPipe", "InOut")

PS>Get-ChildItem -Path "\.\pipe\" -Filter *DummyPipe*

user_9823755 · Answer

There is a free command line utility to create and write/read from named pipes on Windows: https://github.com/psmay/windows-named-pipe-utils