PTYWRAP(1)

💖 ptywrap — the lil glow-up your pipes deserve 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the ptywrap(1) manual page. she's short, she's sweet, she's lowkey a genius, and she's about to gaslight your programs into thinking they're fancy. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ptywrap — fool programs into thinking they are talking to a pseudo-tty

like. that's the whole job. that's the résumé. she lies (affectionately) 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ptywrap

that's it. that's the synopsis. no flags, no args, no drama. main character energy with zero baggage, we love to see it 🦋

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so real talk: ptywrap is a simple tool to wrap other programs' input/output streams in a pseudo-tty. that's the vibe. that's what she does. 🫶

here's the tea though — many programs determine whether or not they should buffer their input/output based on whether or not these are connected to a pseudo-tty. like they literally do a vibe check on their own stdin/stdout and go "hmm, am i on a tty or not" and then they choose their whole buffering personality accordingly. 😭

ptywrap can be used to fool programs into thinking that they are connected to a pseudo-tty even if they are not — e.g. even if the input/output is redirected to a file. she's out here giving your program a little fake ID and the program is fully convinced. iconic. 👑

not me handing a program a pseudo-tty and watching it act like it's the main character at a real terminal 💀

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• modglue(1)
• prompt(1)

See the web page at http://www.aei.mpg.de/~peekas/modglue/ for more information. go read it, iykyk 🌈

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🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

Kasper Peeters <kasper.peeters@aei.mpg.de> — the mastermind, the legend, the one who said "what if programs just… believed us" 💖

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and that's the page, bestie!! this was the PTYWRAP(1) manual, straight out of Jul 12, 2008 — yeah she's a vintage queen, a classic, and honestly she still eats. 🎀✨