From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: piping input to executable reading from /dev/tty?
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE1FD33.3070009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE1FB4F.3020808@kempt.net>
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On 06/20/2012 10:33 AM, Dan B. wrote:
> Is there any way to redirect /dev/tty similarly to how stdin can be
> redirected (e.g., like "echo ... | someexecutable")?
Yes; use 'expect'.
> Does Cygwin (or Unix/Linux, for that matter) have any equivalent way
> of redirecting /dev/tty?
>
> Can /dev/tty be redirected at all? (I would guess that something
> could be done with pseudoterminals, but I know very little about
> them.)
Yes, 'expect' is the command line tool that lets you script around
programs that expect to be run interactively, but where you want to
script the input that your program will see.
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Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-20 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-20 16:34 Dan B.
2012-06-20 16:41 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2012-06-20 21:22 ` Dan B.
2012-06-20 21:26 ` Eric Blake
2012-06-21 11:35 ` Earnie Boyd
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