I’m wondering how one would go about redirecting the stdin of a script from the current xterm session i.e. /dev/pts/0 to one that is also running i.e /dev/pts/1 using bash? I have a bash script that opens 3 xterm windows and I want to get input from only one of those windows and I cannot figure out how to do it. Any help is appreciated! thanks.
EDIT (Moved from below — OP submitted this clarification as an answer)
I guess I should have clarified what I wanted to do. I will start a script from a pty, let’s say it’s /dev/pts/3. This script will open 3 xterminals, lets say: /dev/pts/0, /dev/pts/1, and /dev/pts/2. These 3 new ptys are what the user is going to see. The script asks the user for some input and I want the input of the user to be typed into /dev/pty/1 and the program should get it’s info from there. However I’ve tried to do this and it doesn’t work. Here’s a snippet of my code.
exec</dev/pts/1 echo echo 'Would you like to search for more info?' 1>/dev/pts/1 read answer case $answer in y) echo 'YES' ;; n) echo 'NO' ;; *) echo 'y/n only!';; esac The case statement at the end is just a little placeholder to see if the input actually worked.
I suspect this is not possible. AFAIK, without modifying something in kernel space, it’s impossible to read the input from a tty (or pty) that is not the current tty. Even root can’t do it. I spent some time looking into this and I was unable to find out how to do it, but I did find lots of sources claiming it was impossible. This appears to have been a design decision to increase security/privacy of users.