On Fri 20 May 2011 01:26:56 PM PDT, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
> allow commands to draw directly to the terminal if they wanted. So
> the standard input / output piping system would remain unchanged,

Use /dev/tty to "draw" to the terminal independently of std streams:

  date | sh -c 'read; echo "$REPLY" > /dev/tty' >/dev/null

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