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Old 02-03-2010
Passing screen value to a program
Hi all,

I have the following question. Apparently not very difficult, but I'm not any expert.
I have a program, let's say program.x, and a bash script that execute it, let's say program.sh. When the program executes it asks for a value to continue. What I want is just passing the value throw the script execution (e.g. using $1) , just

>program.sh value

and a line of the script gives the order of passing that value to the screen when the program ask for it. Which would be that line? Thanks in advance
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Old 02-03-2010
Code:
printf "%s\n" "$1" | program.x

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Old 02-08-2010
Great!, it works, thanks a lot

J
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