Wrapper around bash, control STDIN and STDOUT
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I would like to talk to a interactive bash process.
Here is an example, so you know what I want to archieve:
- Program starts a new bash process.
- User types "ls" into my program.
- Program sends this command to the bash process.
- Program reads all available output of the bash (including the prompt) and displays it back to the user.
- GOTO 1
As you can guess, there is much room for nifty manipulations here and there... ;-)
It would be wonderful if this also worked for subprocesses (started by the bash process) and curses-based programs.
I would like to implement this functionality in Ruby, and already have experimented with IO.popen, but strange things happen. You are also welcome to do this in other languages.
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