Bash I/O redirection question

[bager]

Hi, I have two programs (the standard ftp client and a shell script), which I want to make talk one to each other. I.e. ftp's stdout -> script's stdin AND reverse - script's stdout to ftp's stdin ... Is it possible to do this with bash?

I tried pipe + I/O redirection of the stdout of the script to stdin, but it doesn't seem to work.

I tried things like

( exec 5>&0; ( read name; echo "i read $name var" ) | (echo goshko; read b; echo "second script read '$b'") 1>&5 )

The above code just stucks waiting for input ...

Any suggestions ?

[Cabhan]

Here's what I got:

alex@danu ~ $ ( exec 5>&0; ( read name; echo "i read $name var" ) | (echo goshko; read b; echo "second script read '$b'") 1>&5 )
goshko
*here it waited for input.  I typed the following line and pressed enter.*
hello
second script read 'i read hello var'

Having said that, a saner approach to this would probably be to create a named pipe (called a FIFO, see "man 7 fifo"), and then have the output/input redirected appropriately. This will help clean everything up a bit, I expect.