Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone!
I should mention the application: A debugging tool for R (written in
Python). R's internal debugging facilities are primitive, limited and
clunky, a lack that my program is intended to remedy. For example, R's
own debugger doesn't have conditional
On 10/26/2011 03:34 PM, Norm Matloff wrote:
Here's what I'd like to do. I'm running code, in this case Python, in
xterm A (replace by your favorite terminal emulator), and want that code
to write to xterm B, just as if I had typed directly into xterm B.
Say for example I want to run the ls
You could do this at an X11 level, e.g.
http://www.doctort.org/adam/nerd-notes/x11-fake-keypress-event.html
This tool looks promising also, but I haven't tried it:
http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/
I think you'd need to use some Windows API to do this there.
Harold
On Wed, Oct
On 10/26/2011 04:20 PM, Bruce Wolk wrote:
As for question 1, backticks are what you want:
echo `ls` /dev/pts/8
Er, that's running a command in the original window and sending the
output to the second window, which isn't what was asked for. Not to
mention being rather confusing. The output
On 10/26/2011 03:34 PM, Norm Matloff wrote:
Here's what I'd like to do. I'm running code, in this case Python, in
xterm A (replace by your favorite terminal emulator), and want that code
to write to xterm B, just as if I had typed directly into xterm B.
Say for example I want to run the
I was wondering if I could get this down to just a few lines of code
then realized that the shell should be able to handle this. Turns out
it works okay.
In terminal a:
$ while /bin/true; do echo date; sleep 1; done | nc localhost
In terminal b I run:
( nc -d -l cat) | bash
And
You would think that you could write to /dev/$PID/fd/0 and have that be the
input into bash, but you can't. ttys are wierd.
Xterm uses the Unix 98 pseudo terminal interface to talk to its child
process using a /dev/pts/something device file. It calls open(/dev/ptmx)
which is the single Unix 98
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Ken Bloom kbl...@gmail.com wrote:
You would think that you could write to /dev/$PID/fd/0 and have that be
the input into bash, but you can't. ttys are wierd.
Xterm uses the Unix 98 pseudo terminal interface to talk to its child
process using a
