# ptyprocess [](https://github.com/zhiburt/ptyprocess/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [](https://codecov.io/gh/zhiburt/ptyprocess) [](https://crates.io/crates/ptyprocess) [](https://docs.rs/ptyprocess/0.1.0/ptyprocess/) [](./LICENSE.txt)
A library provides an interface for a PTY/TTY communications.
It has an `sync` and `async` backends. Default is `sync`.
You can turn on an async interface by `async` feature.
## Usage
```rust
use ptyprocess::PtyProcess;
use std::process::Command;
use std::io::{Read, Write};
fn main() {
let mut process = PtyProcess::spawn(Command::new("cat")).expect("failed to spawn a process");
process.write_all(b"hello cat\n").expect("failed to write");
let mut buf = vec![0; 128];
let size = process.read(&mut buf).expect("failed to read");
assert_eq!(&buf[..size], b"hello cat\r\n");
assert!(process.exit(true).expect("failed toexit"));
}
```
### Async
It must support most runtimes such (`tokio`, `async-std`, `smol` etc.).
```rust
use ptyprocess::PtyProcess;
use std::process::Command;
use futures_lite::{AsyncReadExt, AsyncWriteExt};
#[tokio::main]
fn main() {
let mut process = PtyProcess::spawn(Command::new("cat")).expect("failed to spawn a process");
process.write_all(b"hello cat\n").await.expect("failed to write");
let mut buf = vec![0; 128];
let size = process.read(&mut buf).await.expect("failed to read");
assert_eq!(&buf[..size], b"hello cat\r\n");
assert!(process.exit(true).expect("failed toexit"));
}
```