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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with Bash piped while-read and a read user input at the same time Post 302601473 by MyMorris on Thursday 23rd of February 2012 06:40:24 PM
Old 02-23-2012
I can not get it to work as it builds on that it comes data on file 'server.log' for the program to get to the prompt and there is no steady stream of data on that file.
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Yes, it will block.

Since it's bash, you could have it time out eventually if the user doesn't type anything ( read -t 1 userinput < /dev/tty )
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

startsrv

STARTSRV(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       STARTSRV(8)

NAME

       startsrv - invoke ttysrv for a particular host.

SYNOPSIS

       startsrv host

DESCRIPTION

       startsrv  fires	up  ttysrv  for  a  given  host.  It  will  kill  any  already	running  instance  for	that  host, then read /etc/remote-
       tty/opt/<host>.srv for any options to pass to ttysrv (defaulting to those that set 9600,8n1), /etc/remote-tty/prot/<host>.sock for the per-
       missions the socket should be set to (default 660), /etc/remote-tty/owner/<host>.sock for the owner of the socket (default rttymgr:dialout)
       and /etc/remote-tty/prot/<host>.log for the permissions of the logfile (default 640).

       The device node used is /etc/remote-tty/dev/<host>. This will normally be a symlink to the correct file in /dev.

       ttysrv is configured to log to /var/log/remote-tty/<host>/<host>, with a  pidfile  at  /var/run/remote-tty/pid/<host>  and  the	socket	at
       /var/run/remote-tty/sock/<host>.

SEE ALSO

       remote-tty(1), ttysrv(8).

AUTHOR

       rtty was written by Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>. This manual page was written by Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> for the Debian project
       (but may be used by others).

								   May 23, 2006 						       STARTSRV(8)
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