Where does the "prompt come from"

[Darren Tucker]

Niclas Bäckman C (LI/EAB) wrote:

> If I use a standard client like OpenSSH the client echoes back the prompt after a command is executed,
> but in my scenarion it's lost and never written to stdout/stderr(my socket).
> Does the SSH client remove the prompt in some way before data is passed to stdout/stderr ??
> Many thanks in advance !

You could try forcing an interactive shell:

ssh yourhost /bin/sh -i

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