Maybe this is what you're trying to do:
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
namespace Echo
{
class Program
{
private static void Read(StreamReader reader)
{
new Thread(() =>
{
while (true)
{
int current;
while ((current = reader.Read()) >= 0)
Console.Write((char)current);
}
}).Start();
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(@"/usr/bin/ssh");
startInfo.Arguments = "-ttty localhost";
startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
startInfo.ErrorDialog = false;
startInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
startInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;
startInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
Process process = new Process();
process.StartInfo = startInfo;
process.Start();
Thread.Sleep(15000); //time to login
Read(process.StandardOutput);
Read(process.StandardError);
process.StandardInput.WriteLine("echoing your input now");
while (!process.HasExited)
try { process.StandardInput.WriteLine(Console.ReadLine()); }
catch {}
Console.WriteLine(process.ExitCode.ToString());
}
}
}
EDIT 1
You need to redirect the StandardInput in order to echo it, but then the cmd in windows will elaborate it line by line (even if you use Console.ReadKey() => process.StandardInput.Write), so you can't have shell support while typing (look at this question/answer if you want to dig in).
But mono with linux ssh behaves differently from windows cmd, so the following could be acceptable maybe:
commands are echoed and even the tab while typing a dir is managed (look at my screenshot below)! Finally please notice that the tty is correctly set.
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
namespace Echo
{
class Program
{
private static Process process;
private static void Read(StreamReader reader)
{
new Thread(() =>
{
while (!process.HasExited)
{
int current;
while ((current = reader.Read()) >= 0)
Console.Write((char)current);
}
}).Start();
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(@"/usr/bin/ssh");
startInfo.Arguments = "-ttty localhost";
startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
startInfo.ErrorDialog = false;
startInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
startInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;
startInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
process = new Process();
process.StartInfo = startInfo;
process.Start();
Thread.Sleep(15000); //time to login
Read(process.StandardOutput);
Read(process.StandardError);
process.StandardInput.WriteLine("echo echoing your input now");
//Console.ReadLine();
string theLine = "\n";
while (!process.HasExited)
try {
ConsoleKeyInfo kinfo = Console.ReadKey(true);
char theKey = kinfo.KeyChar;
theLine += theKey;
process.StandardInput.Write(theKey) ;
process.StandardInput.Flush();
if (theKey.Equals('\n'))
{
Console.WriteLine(theLine);
theLine = "\n";
}
}
catch { }
Console.WriteLine(process.ExitCode.ToString());
}
}
}
EDIT 2
If you want to also manage the terminal escape sequences for the UpArrow/DownArrow, here is the code (tested on my Ubuntu terminal)
string theLine = "\n";
string theEsc = ((char)27).ToString();
while (!process.HasExited)
try {
//byte[] bytes = new byte[1];
ConsoleKeyInfo kinfo = Console.ReadKey(true);
char theKey = kinfo.KeyChar;
theLine += theKey;
switch (kinfo.Key)
{
case ConsoleKey.DownArrow:
process.StandardInput.Write(theEsc+"[B");
break;
case ConsoleKey.UpArrow:
process.StandardInput.Write(theEsc+"[A");
break;
default:
process.StandardInput.Write(theKey);
break;
}
process.StandardInput.Flush();
if (theKey.Equals('\n'))
{
Console.Write(theLine);
theLine = "\n";
}
}
EDIT 3
Just a follow up to my comments with a suggested command to restore echo (reference here).
This is the change to the code:
process.StandardInput.WriteLine("stty -a");
process.StandardInput.WriteLine("stty echo"); // or "reset" insted of "stty echo"
process.StandardInput.WriteLine("echo echoing your input now");
Back to your original code (since you're not redirecting the standard input), you could do something like the following
process_info.Arguments = "-ttt hostname 'stty echo; '$SHELL' -i'"; // or reset insted of stty echo
Look at this answer too.
In conclusion the source you're showing - and more specifically c# System.Process - is not supposed to echo anything (unless one intentionally redirects the standard I/O, as I've done here in my first example and in edit 1&2).
Echoing is a behavior of the shell, in Linux as well as in Windows: that can be managed as shown in edit 3.
