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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. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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