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Old 01-29-2002
Question automate the input in a script

I have a program that i have to run by cron. The program needs user input. So i have to automate that in a littke script.

start of script program.sh:

result=program.log; export result
echo Program starting : `date` >> $result
/usr/local/program >> $result
echo Program running : `date` >> $result


The program normally asks for a string (a pass phrase).
How can i do this ?

I know i have to use something like :

/usr/local/program >> $result 2>&1 <<eof
blablablabla
eof

but i don't get it to work

Thanks in advance
 

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LATEX-MK(1)							  [FIXME: manual]						       LATEX-MK(1)

NAME
latex-mk - automate compilation of LaTeX files. SYNOPSIS
latex-mk [options] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the latex-mk commands. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below. latex-mk is a wrapper script used by the LaTeX-Mk makefile system for LaTeX documents. Its purpose is to run LaTeX the appropriate number of times to resolve all references and page changes associated with resolving references. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files. -h --help Show description of the script. --version Show version of program. -b --bibtex Force call to BibTeX. --clean Delete log file. --debug Enable debug mode. --ignore-errors Ignore errors. --pdflatex Use pdflatex instead of latex. --tex2page Use tex2page instead of latex. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Rafael Laboissiere rafael@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Rafael Laboissiere [FIXME: source] January 28, 2006 LATEX-MK(1)
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