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I have a game engine (chess, stockfish) running from terminal. After the engine run, it will register it self as process with certain ID. If I type certain command (UCI ...
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  1. 06-10-2012 #1
    delphix
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    Sending command (input parameter for app) to running process

    I have a game engine (chess, stockfish) running from terminal. After the engine run, it will register it self as process with certain ID. If I type certain command (UCI command) in the console where I run the engine, it will processing it and print some output.

    Question : If I open another console, from other console how do I send a certain command to the running engine/process?

    Should I write another application to do it? Then type
    Code:
    ../LocationOfTheApp/NameOfTheApp [CMD2BSend] [RecieverID]
    or can do
    Code:
    /proc/[receiverID] [command or the input]
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    It depends! In your case, it seems that the game console is using stdin for input. Injecting data into that stream is not simple (though doable). Many such apps allow you to send messages via the network, so you can use tools such as telnet, netcat, etc to communicate with it,. In your case, I don't know enough to say.
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