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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Scrolling through text while interacting with program prompts Post 302751313 by nanlee on Thursday 3rd of January 2013 04:42:03 PM
Old 01-03-2013
Thanks, expect worked like a charm! I used something like:

Code:
/usr/bin/expect <<EOD

set timeout 100

spawn (process)
expect "yes/no"
send "yes\r"
expect "Enter"
send "\r"
expect "0%"
send " "
expect "13%"
send " "
#etc...
EOD

 

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