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I am trying to play around and understanding ttys. In one terminal emulator window, the output of tty gives me

$ tty
/dev/ttys010

So I figured if I write to this device, the terminal window will show the output. In a second window, when I run

$ echo "test" > /dev/ttys010

The first window shows the word "test" as expect. However, when I run

$ echo "test" | /dev/ttys010

I get no output in the first window. Why is this? I assume its because | redirects stdout to programs while > redirects output to files.

michael_fortunato
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You can write to a file with a pipe. Here are two alternatives

echo "test" | tee /dev/ttys010
echo "test" | cat > /dev/ttys010

As explained in the answer in the comment above, pipes feed stdout of one program to stdin of another program, and /dev/ttys010 is a device file, not a program and is generally not something you want to run.

user10489
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