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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing arguments to interactive program through bash script, here document Post 302909552 by Corona688 on Thursday 17th of July 2014 02:31:45 PM
Old 07-17-2014
Which code icon are you clicking? Use this one: Image If that's the one you're clicking, then the editor must have a bug.

I notice that, in your shell, you just type 'ma' but in the program, you give /full/path/to/ma. Does your script have a different PATH than your program? Is it being run by cron or CGI or some other automatic method? Important things may be missing from your environment which ma needs to work.

Also, interactive programs don't always work well with automatic input. Some can, some don't. It might even decide "OK, I don't have a terminal -- this means I shouldn't bother asking questions and just use all-default options". Let's test it. Does this work, typed into your terminal by itself?

Code:
ma <<EOF
H_X.fas
auto
n
/home/multalign/dna.tab

n
msf
y
aligned
l
100.90
EOF

 

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img-window(n)															     img-window(n)

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NAME
img-window - Img, Tk Windows (window) SYNOPSIS
package require Tk package require img::window ?1.3? image create photo ?name? ?options? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
The package img::window is a sub-package of Img. It can be loaded as a part of the complete Img support, via package require Img, or on its own, via package require img::window. Like all packages of Img it does not provide new commands, but extends the existing Tk command image. More specifically img::window extends Tk's photo image type. The name of the new format handler is window. This handler does not provide additional configuration options. This handler is special. Instead of reading or writing image data from a file or string it allows the embedding of a Tk widget into the photo image. In other words, it takes a snapshot of the contents of a Tk window. All of the above means that in a call like image create photo ?name? ?options? [1] Image data in window format (option -data) is detected automatically. Image data is considered to be in the window format if the value given to option -data is the name of an existing Tk window. Note that the standard option -file is not supported by this handler. [2] The format name window is recognized by the option -format. SEE ALSO
img-bmp, img-dted, img-gif, img-ico, img-intro, img-jpeg, img-pcx, img-pixmap, img-png, img-ppm, img-ps, img-raw, img-sgi, img-sun, img- tga, img-tiff, img-window, img-xbm, img-xpm KEYWORDS
image handling, tk, window COPYRIGHT
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