On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was suggesting the possibility that an existing tool might
>> help you by somehow interacting with the user via some channel
>>> other than stdout and then uttering the results back to the
>>> parent shell via stdout,
>
> Ah, well, there is no channel other than the tty.
A tty provides two output channels, stdout and stderr.
Additionally, in some scenarios, one can go outside the standard I/O
streams and grab the tty directly. MOD's suggestion may still be
useful.
It may help if you tell us something about the environment. Linux
only? Other *nixes? Versions? PC console? xterm? SSH? Serial
line to VT-100?
It may help if you tell us about what you're trying to get out of
this interaction with the user. I understand if this is for $WORK
some details may be hush-hush, but if you can genericize it, it might
help give us some context. E.g.:
I have to prompt the user for a hostname and an IP address.
The hostname entered may or may not be fully-qualified, so
I have to figure that out, and qualify it if needed. I
also need to do basic syntactic validity checking. Then
I need to set $IPADDR and $NAME in the shell.
-- Ben
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