Assuming there are are no processes running in a specific terminal (say pts/1), is it possible to run a command in that terminal from a shell script which is running in another terminal?
Please guide.
Thanks in advance, Saeya
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are terminals hardwired ? so you want the output of your program to go to another terminal , right ? – michael501 Oct 22 '13 at 19:34
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No, I do not want the output of a program in another terminal. Rather I want the process to start a command's execution in the other terminal. That command should run independently in the other terminal. It should look as though the command was given in that terminal. – Saeya Darsan Oct 22 '13 at 19:46
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how about running a shell script to wait for an event ( eg : a file trigger) and start the process ? – michael501 Oct 22 '13 at 19:51
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If you don't care about output, why do you care which terminal process spawns the worker? Just run the script as a background process, independent of the terminal(s) entirely. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10274622/run-script-in-background – Dan Bechard Oct 22 '13 at 19:52