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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to provide auto inputs for a sub-script within a script? Post 302891398 by madhur.baharani on Wednesday 5th of March 2014 12:47:30 PM
Old 03-05-2014
Hi All,

Than You for the response.

Why not simply modify the db_tools script so that it no longer asks for user input but takes the defaults that you want?
-> Because the db_tools script is the standard for all the user.
But whenever I want t use this script it should take the my inputs i.e 13, 0 and exit.

Code:
sybase@host> /var/tmp/db_tools

13
0
exit

You could trying using a heredoc. Or if you need to do something more complex (like verifying responses) then look at expect.
-> heredoc and expect, I am not sure because this is the linux server where I cannot add any expect command tools.

Do you want to automate running the switch-user and the db_tools? You could perhaps:-
1st I want to run the "su - sybase" and then the "/var/tmp/db_tools" and provide the fixed inputs in the same sequence as "13, 0 and exit."

If you want to add a function to the db_tools scripts, we will need to see the script to know how it is laid out. Hopefully, there is a menu display, an input request and then a case statement, in which case we can add the function easily.
-> I dont want to add any finction.

My basic requirement is to run script as follows example :-

I am running below script with root user
Code:
#!/bin/bash
cat /etc/hosts
mkdir -p /var/tmp
su - sybase -> upto here no problem
/var/tmp/db_tools -> this should run once I swicth to sybase user
13 -> after running dba_tools I want to enter option 13 everytime
0 -> once option 13 is completed I want to pass 0
exit -> at last I want to enter exit


Thank You all for the reply and my apologies if something is not clear.

Regards,
Madhur

Last edited by Don Cragun; 03-05-2014 at 05:37 PM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
 

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