Send a keyboard input to a process

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Hello all. Say I have a process with a process ID (may be unrelated to the PERL script process), and I want to send it a keyboard message. Is that possible via PERL? I.E.

sendProcessMessage( 9010 "1 is one\n");
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And process which id is 9010 will act as if it was just input "is is one" and a \n (if needed, one can add \r)? Thanks.

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Re: Send a keyboard input to a process by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2011 at 09:52 UTC
Almost. You can send messages to windows, and windows are associated with pids. See X11::GUITest, Re^2: How to Retrieve another Process' Window Title?	[reply]
Re: Send a keyboard input to a process by andal (Hermit) on Mar 08, 2011 at 07:41 UTC
Depends on the process, not on perl. Some processes don't handle any keyboard input, so you can't send any input to that process. Those processes that handle input may do it using different ways, via controlling tty, or via events loop of GUI.	[reply]