This script can be used to remote-control console applications that don't support this by themselves:

• Start the script. The script forks into the background and gives you a free shell.
• Start an application in the new shell.
• echo -n "a" > ~/.inputfile
• The application now thinks that the "a" key was pressed.

Background: I had mp3blaster running on an old computer in the network and wanted to bind the functions "next song" and "previous song" to keys on my desktop computer. If I started the program using this script, I could easily send the required command over the network via ssh.

Download

• rpte.rb