STI(8) |
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STI(8) |
NAME
sti — Simulate Terminal Input: send characters to a tty device
DESCRIPTION
sti connects to the specified
tty and uses the
TIOCSTI ioctl(2) to enter text as if it were typed in. This
ioctl(2) is limited to the superuser.
sti will send the provided string if any; otherwise it sends the standard input. The string is interpreted using unvis(3).
HISTORY
The sti command first appeared in NetBSD 4.0.
AUTHORS
The sti command was written by Christos Zoulas <christos@NetBSD.org>.