On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:06:09PM -0400, devi wrote: > Hi, > The command > echo "service httpd status " > /dev/pts/1 is executed on one terminal, > let us assume it as t1. > The echo command is executed on t1 but the output(service httpd status" > is directed to /dev/pts/1 terminal. > > What I am saying is that the output is redirected directly to the > terminal /dev/pts1/1. > The output here is "service httpd status", which is generally a command. > And so it gets executed. No, the text just appears in the terminal associated with /dev/pts1/1; it does not not cause the command to be executed. That is to say, you can't use this as a mechanism to insert characters into a another terminal's input buffer. -- Red sky at night - gerroff my land! Red sky at morning - gerroff my land! -- old farmers' sayings #14 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines