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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read input from another tty Post 302686463 by colinireland on Tuesday 14th of August 2012 03:34:13 PM
Old 08-14-2012
Hello bakunin,

Thanks for your reply. The main issue I am having is reading in output from a terminal to a variable in the bash script. I know the following won't work but hopefully it can illustrate what I am trying to achieve.

Code:
 new_term_num=`xterm -e "tty > /dev/pts/0`

Regards,
Colin
 

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tapset::tty(3stap)														tapset::tty(3stap)

NAME
tapset::tty - systemtap tty tapset DESCRIPTION
tty.open Called when a tty is opened See probe::tty.open(3stap) for details. tty.release Called when the tty is closed See probe::tty.release(3stap) for details. tty.resize Called when a terminal resize happens See probe::tty.resize(3stap) for details. tty.ioctl called when a ioctl is request to the tty See probe::tty.ioctl(3stap) for details. tty.init Called when a tty is being initalized See probe::tty.init(3stap) for details. tty.register Called when a tty device is registred See probe::tty.register(3stap) for details. tty.unregister Called when a tty device is being unregistered See probe::tty.unregister(3stap) for details. tty.poll Called when a tty device is being polled See probe::tty.poll(3stap) for details. tty.receive called when a tty receives a message See probe::tty.receive(3stap) for details. tty.write write to the tty line See probe::tty.write(3stap) for details. tty.read called when a tty line will be read See probe::tty.read(3stap) for details. SEE ALSO
probe::tty.open(3stap), probe::tty.release(3stap), probe::tty.resize(3stap), probe::tty.ioctl(3stap), probe::tty.init(3stap), probe::tty.register(3stap), probe::tty.unregister(3stap), probe::tty.poll(3stap), probe::tty.receive(3stap), probe::tty.write(3stap), probe::tty.read(3stap), stap(1), stapprobes(3stap) IBM
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