Skypipe is a magical command line tool that lets you easily pipe data across terminal sessions, regardless of whether the sessions are on the same machine, across thousands of machines, or even behind a firewall. It gives you named pipes in the sky and lets you pipe data anywhere.
Skypipe is sort of like named pipes and netcat, but with even more power and a simpler interface. Here is a simple example using skypipe like you would a regular named pipe in order to gzip a file across shells:
$ skypipe | gzip -9 -c > out.gz
Your skypipe is ready to receive some data from another shell process: