November 10, 2005 STI 8

### NAME

sti - Simulate Terminal Input: send characters to a tty device

### SYNOPSIS

sti tty [string ...]

### DESCRIPTION

sti will send the provided string to the tty specified in the command line using ioctl(2) ```TIOCSTI`, or send the standard input if a string is not supplied. This ioctl(2) is limited to the superuser.

The string is interpreted using unvis(3).

### SEE ALSO

ioctl(2), unvis(3)

### HISTORY

The sti first appeared at NetBSD4.0.

### AUTHORS

The sti command was written by Christos Zoulas
<christos@NetBSD.org>.