hijack

Assumptions:

1. You have an interactive terminal program.
2. You like that it is interactive.
3. You are considering tee'ing its output to a file so other programs can parse it.
4. You are wondering if there is some way you could create a named pipe that fed into the programs stdin.

hijack is your tool. You give it a directory to put an out file and an in named pipe, and some command to run.

This tool can only be used for doing gross things.

Example

In a terminal, type ./hijack foo python. This appears equivalent to just typing python at the moment. Open up another terminal and navigate to the folder foo. If you read the out file you will have essentially a copy of what is on the screen. If you do echo "print('Hello, world!')" > in then it will "type" that into python. Magic.