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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script to Automatically Read My Password Post 302602106 by durden_tyler on Sunday 26th of February 2012 03:21:47 AM

02-26-2012

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Sara_84

...
each time I run the script , it asks me for my password then it executes fine.

Code:

 
./myscript.sh
Password for ....

is there a way to automate the script to read my password from a file or something without me interacting with the script each time I run it.
...

Code:

$
$
$ # contents of myscript.sh
$ cat -n myscript.sh
     1  #!/usr/bin/bash
     2  echo "Printing from myscript.sh"
     3  echo -n "Enter password: "
     4  read passwd
     5  echo
     6  echo "Your password is: $passwd"
     7  echo "End of myscript.sh"
$
$ # run myscript.sh and feed password when prompted
$ ./myscript.sh
Printing from myscript.sh
Enter password: hello_world

Your password is: hello_world
End of myscript.sh
$
$ # now put the password in a file, say "mypasswd.txt"
$ cat -n mypasswd.txt
     1  hello_world
$
$ # and call myscript.sh, redirecting the password from mypasswd.txt
$ ./myscript.sh < mypasswd.txt
Printing from myscript.sh
Enter password:
Your password is: hello_world
End of myscript.sh
$
$

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