X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Redirecting Console Input Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:57:31 -0500 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <49029EC2.5050700@veritech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) In-Reply-To: <49029EC2.5050700@veritech.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Lee D.Rothstein wrote: > Is there a way to redirect console input /to/ (actually /from/ ;-) ) a > file, for say a Vista > console (CLI) command like 'sc'? =46rom a recent post 'ttyfier' is probably the answer, the post is: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00164.html which has a link to the source code. > I've tried: >=20 > sc sc.help.txt There is a tool in coreutils called yes, it outputs a stream of 'yes', so usually (but not with windows console programs) one would do 'yes | program &> log.txt' > Where 'Ys.in' is a file containing a bunch of 'Y's, which is what 'sc' > is waiting for. > 'sc' ignores the file and waits for me to type 'Y', before it > resumes the help output to stdout. [snip] --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/