On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:03 -0500, "Munir Nassar" <tclug at beitsahour.net> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:40, Isaac Atilano <aristophrenic at warpmail.net> > wrote: > > I want to be able to do something like > > echo 'progname'>/dev/pts/1 > > and have progname submitted through the shell on pts1. > maybe you want to use a fifo, man mkfifo > I don't think write or mkfifo would work because they are equivalent to what I'm already doing with echo 'progname'>/dev/pts/1. I am able to send the text from one terminal to another but not to have it run as a command. It was recommended I use screen and, while I use screen regularly, I'm not sure how to use it to tackle the problem at hand. Maybe this example makes more sense.