Sending Characters to a process

pepeapepepe · 2009-09-10 17:54:56

Hi,

I'm trying to stop (nicely) a xterm running a ncmpc from another termial. For scrpiting purposes.

So i thought it would be enought to send a 'q' character trought stdin.

this is what i'm testing

pc -C ncmpc # to grab the PID

once i've got the PID i try

echo -n q > /proc/PID/fd/0

but the progrma doesn't exits. (it prints the q on stdout)

Could somebody give advice on how to do this?

1) is this the best way ?(maybe kill -STOP PID is not bad if ncmpc handles it well)

2) or how do i echo the q?

regards

giddygiddyBA · 2009-09-11 03:10:14

I asked a question similar to this awhile ago

For scripting you are better off to kill based on a PID (its cleaner to code, works every time, and more portable then the other option)

I am still interested if the redirect would work, you may want to post on a BSD forum as well (those folks have a wealth of knowledge as well)

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