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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Scripting with applications Post 302442443 by icecoldaswin on Wednesday 4th of August 2010 08:33:37 AM
Old 08-04-2010
Question Scripting with applications

Hi,
I am developing a script that invokes a program, and that program is going to prompt for some input every now and then based on some parameters.

My script shall provide input to the program, automatically, by processing the text output by the program..

say..
when the program asks

"username:" the script shall enter "griffin"
"room number:" the script shall enter 23
"what is the temperature at XX:XX hrs": the script shall refer to a file where a list of temperatures with corresponding times are present to give the appropriate answer.

For this, my script must be able to process the text output/prompted by the program.

How do I do this? Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks.
 

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DH_INSTALLDEBCONF(1)						     Debhelper						      DH_INSTALLDEBCONF(1)

NAME
dh_installdebconf - install files used by debconf in package build directories SYNOPSIS
dh_installdebconf [debhelperoptions] [-n] [--params] DESCRIPTION
dh_installdebconf is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by debconf into package build directories. It also automatically generates the postrm commands needed to interface with debconf. The commands are added to the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb. See dh_installdeb(1) for an explanation of how that works. Note that if you use debconf, your package probably needs to depend on it (it will be added to ${misc:Depends} by this program). Note that for your config script to be called by dpkg, your postinst needs to source debconf's confmodule. dh_installdebconf does not install this statement into the postinst automatically as it it too hard to do it right. FILES
debian/package.config This is the debconf config script, and is installed into the DEBIAN directory in the package build directory. Inside the script, the token #DEBHELPER# is replaced with shell script snippets generated by other debhelper commands. debian/package.templates This is the debconf templates file, and is installed into the DEBIAN directory in the package build directory. debian/po/ If this directory is present, this program will automatically use po2debconf(1) to generate merged templates files that include the translations from there. For this to work, your package should build-depend on po-debconf. OPTIONS
-n, --noscripts Do not modify postrm script. -- params Pass the params to po2debconf. SEE ALSO
debhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 8.9.0ubuntu2.1 2012-06-12 DH_INSTALLDEBCONF(1)
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