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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers proceed through a menu-based program with a script? Post 302239904 by nichola$ on Wednesday 24th of September 2008 04:57:10 PM
Old 09-24-2008
proceed through a menu-based program with a script?
I am trying to figure out a way to proceed through a menu-based program in UNIX with just one command to execute several steps. Is this possible?

From the command prompt I would normally type the name of the program, 'disk_analysis' to start the program and bring up its menu.
I would then enter '7' to choose an input and output file and then manually type the location of the input file for example,"H:/data/input.txt"; Then I would enter '2' to execute the analysis.

I tried just listing them sequentially like so,

disk_analysis; 7; H:/data/input.txt; 2

but the program only opens and never even executes the first step. Is there some way to have it wait a bit for the menu to show up before sending each next command?

Thanks
Last edited by nichola$; 09-24-2008 at 06:11 PM..
 

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