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Construct a command by putting a string into a tty
I managed to do this
echo -n "command" > /dev/tty1
The letters appear, and the cursor moves, but they are "ghosts" - if you hit enter, nothing happens (they are not in stdin).
Edit:
In the ...
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Can I read and write to the same file in Linux without overwriting it? [duplicate]
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How can I make iconv replace the input file with the converted output?
I frequently connect to amazon ec2 using their public DNS names ...
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what is meant by connecting STDOUT and STDIN?
This is a newbie question. I'm reading a book, it says:
Every process has at least three communication channels available to it: “standard
input” (STDIN), “standard output” (STDOUT), and ...
