[Gllug] share keyboard input between two applications

[Peter Childs]

2009/10/9 JLMS <jjllmmss at googlemail.com>:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Victor Churchill
> <vchurchill at softwareshack.eu> wrote:
>> 2009/10/8  <news at aleblanc.cotse.net>:
>>> Hi,
>>>   can anyone tell me if it is possible to share keyboard input events
>>>   between two or more applications simultaneously? and if so, how?
>>>   I want to try playing music while simultaneously typing text (don't
>>>   ask why).
>>>
>>> --
>>> aleblanc
>>>
>>
>> Would named pipes made with mkfifo work for you? You can sit in a while loop,
>> read()ing a line and echoing it onto both fifos . Then have your apps
>> read their input from the pipes.
>
>
> Explain further please, this sounds enticing, perhaps short snippet of code?
> --


Sounds like a perfect use of tee.

cat - | tee `command 1` | command 2

or somthing like that

Peter.
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