06-02-2009
Queueing keystrokes
Hello,
I have a ksh which can be run interactively with read etc waiting for input and so forth.
Do you have an idea how can I invoke the ksh and supply a sequence of keystrokes that will feed the executable flow so that it will automatically run as if someone actually walked through one prompt at a time, responding to them?
I hope this is possible, it almost seem that I should place all of the readable responses to reads etc into a buffer and that will feed the reads etc.
Is it something that can be done?
Please let me know.
Thanks alot!
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times(1) User Commands times(1)
NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
times
ksh
times
DESCRIPTION
sh
Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.
ksh
Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 times(1)