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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to enter a return key in bash script? Post 302425186 by duker61 on Thursday 27th of May 2010 09:44:56 AM
Old 05-27-2010
the problem/the solution
Hi all,

The problem (as I see it) is either the more command or the here-now is behaving differently in Linux than it does in AIX and HP-UX.

My wrapper script calls a vendor script and responds to questions with a here-now list. The "Return" response is required to repond to a "more" command listing an environment file is not processing correctly.

The soultion (for me) is to change the "more" to a "cat" to display the file.

I did not want to change a vendor install script but I feel I have no choice.

So I've added code to my wrapper script to make a copy of the vendor script and change this line:

Code:
more docs/env.txt

to:

Code:
cat docs/env.txt

This enables the here-now and the wrapper script using the modified vendor script seems to work properly.

This is the code I implemented in my script:

Code:
 
# 
# fix the install script into installSF to prevent the loop after displaying the
environment. 
# 
sed 's/more docs\/env.txt/cat docs\/env.txt/g' install > installSF 
 
# enable execute 
chmod 555 installSF

Works like a charm!

Thanks to all for your help!
 

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