Printing information to tty

coldhawk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i failed to find information about this the way i need to do it.

i fork my program and i need it to print some information in my open tty1, but failed to do so. I have tried open the /dev/tty1 and print it there but that didn't do the trick. I know im missing something here and i would be thankful of any information where to go from here.

alright my bad i opened it read-only so that's why it didn't work, thanx for your great help anyway.

open (TTY, ">>/dev/tty1 ) or die "$!\n";
print TTY "Hello there tty1 console\n";
close (TTY);
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Re: Printing information to tty by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 22, 2004 at 13:11 UTC
I've had some luck with the following snippet: `{ local *STDOUT; open( STDOUT, ">>/dev/tty" ); print "This goes to /dev/tty\n"; }` [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply] [d/l]