Sending simulated key presses to a specific process using python script in linux

Anubhav Rai

3/11/24, 11:29 AM

On my Linux system I have opened a Telnet session. On the other tab I am running a Python script and giving commands to the Telnet session using mkfifo file redirection. But I am not able to simulate key presses to the Telnet session through my Python script.

so in one tab i have opened a telnet session using these commands

mkfifo my.fifo
cat >my.fifo &
cat my.fifo | telnet 182.23.45.12 10000 2>&1 | tee log.txt

Now in another tab i am running a python script which is giving commands to this telnet process. That I am doing through printf "command" > my.fifo .

But I need to send a key press event to the telnet process which i am not able to do using this below command

printf "command" > my.fifo

But how can I do ctrl+c using the same way?

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