| STI(8) | System Manager's Manual | STI(8) | 
NAME
 sti — Simulate Terminal Input: send characters to a tty device
DESCRIPTION
 sti connects to the specified 
tty and uses the 
TIOCSTI ioctl(2) to enter text as if it were typed in. This 
ioctl(2) is limited to the superuser.
sti will send the provided string if any; otherwise it sends the standard input. The string is interpreted using unvis(3).
 
HISTORY
 The sti command first appeared in NetBSD 4.0.
AUTHORS
 The sti command was written by Christos Zoulas <christos@NetBSD.org>.