On 20 September 2016 at 11:07, Etan Kissling <kissling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'd like to start hostapd without a stored configuration file from a script. > Is it possible to do that, e.g. with config as a heredoc, similar to the following snippet? You can try on bash4: hostapd <(cat <<EOF // config goes here EOF ) On rc shell: hostapd <{cat <<EOF // config goes here EOF ) Generally on linux: hostapd /dev/stdin <<EOF // config goes here EOF /dev/stdin points to /proc/self/fd/0 meaning you can use these paths interchangeably. Michał _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap