add exported "start" function

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/twopane.bash b/twopane.bash
index a00e727..ddcd79b 100755
--- a/twopane.bash
+++ b/twopane.bash
@@ -75,7 +75,14 @@ send()
 {
         sendc "$*"$'\n'
 }
-export -f send sendc sendp restart
+start()
+{
+        while read -r -N1
+        do
+                sendc "$REPLY"
+        done
+}
+export -f restart sendp sendc send start
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