ptyrun 1 user commands nosh ptyrun run a program under a pseudo-terminal ptyrun next-prog ptyrun enables running programs that expect terminals on their standard file descriptors, in situations where there are no controlling terminals and the standard file descriptors are things such as pipes or sockets. It does not itself expect to be running connected to a terminal, and it takes no steps to adjust terminal modes if it is. If next-prog stops with a signal, it is simply continued. ptyrun combines pty-allocate1, pty-run1, and open-controlling-tty1 to run next-prog with its standard input, output, and error routed through a pseudo-terminal. It is a script that needs execlineb1 as its script interpreter. next-prog may contain its own command line options, which pty-run will ignore. See open-controlling-terminal1 for the environment and open file descriptors inherited by next-prog. There was a ptyrun shell script in Daniel J. Bernstein's pty package in 1996. This workalike execlineb script based upon nosh tools was created in 2013. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard