On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:40, Isaac Atilano <aristophrenic at warpmail.net> wrote: > > > I'd like to send commands from one terminal and have them run on > another. > > I'm accessing my pc through ssh on /dev/pts/0 and /dev/pts/1. > > I am able to write from one terminal to another, e.g., on pts 0 > #echo 'Hi There'>/dev/pts/1 > "Hi There" then appears on pts1. > > I want to be able to do something like > echo 'progname'>/dev/pts/1 > and have progname submitted through the shell on pts1. > > Is there any way of doing this in Linux using shell commands? maybe you want to use a fifo, man mkfifo generally you create a fifo, write to it as if it is a file from one program, and read from it from another program as if it is a file. Actually it is a two-way communications channel, so you can pass messages both ways.