I am trying to run two commands in a remote terminal session on unix. I want to do: script text.txt > /dev/pts/5 python program.py?

Question

The problem is that when starting script, my local terminal (/dev/pts/4 or whichever number) runs the script command and I am not able to send the python command. Ultimately, I want to have a couple of commands after the script command to be run and everything to be called up by a shell script file.

Answer 1

I'm a little confused about what you mean by remote.

It looks like you are trying to run "script text.txt" and redirect stdout to /dev/pts/5 which would be a local virtual terminal.

Do you want to run these sequentially?

You could try a pipe like:

script text.txt > /dev/pts/5 | python program.py > /dev/pts/5

Since > sends script text.txt stdout to /dev/pts/5 there shouldn't be anything on python program.py stdin.



BTW: When you say "remote" I think you are trying to run these commands on a different system. In that case, you probably want to use ssh.

Answer 2

So I was confused on using ">"...I thought it would execute the command in the external terminal window, but I was incorrect. I ended up modifying my program.py to tee it's print statements to stdio as well as a text file instead of using "script" command.

Answer 3

If you want to enter them both on the same command line, put a & between the two commands.