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elisescu / tty-share

Share your linux or osx terminal over the Internet.
https://tty-share.com/
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Output redirection doesn't work #12

Closed RafayGhafoor closed 4 years ago

RafayGhafoor commented 4 years ago

tty-share > output # hangs the terminal.

elisescu commented 4 years ago

In your example it's not actually hanging the terminal, but instead you just don't see anything as the stdout is redirected to the output file. If you do a tail -f output from another terminal you will see what I mean.

But of course this is not really intuitive, nor probably even useful. What would you expect to happen when redirecting the output, or what use-case did you have in mind?

RafayGhafoor commented 4 years ago

The case in which the output was needed was inside linux emergency shell (tty) where mouse didn't work and the output had to be copied and sent to other computer, the tty terminal didn't have support for copying the output of a command (as far as I remember), and the output was needed to be redirected to a file, which was then uploaded to pastebin (ix.io) and sent to the user by some script.

The workaround for it was to add & after the command: tty-share > output & and it worked though tty-share was unable to work inside tty terminal, I don't know why as when opened on another browser, it would just open the webpage with cursor at the beginning and nothing after it.

elisescu commented 4 years ago

Maybe the tty-share -logfile outout will help in that case? The output printed in that file is not pretty, and I don't even know if it works well, but maybe worth trying.

RafayGhafoor commented 4 years ago

@elisescu, this works. Thank you!