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Old 11-04-2011
Interactive shell - Give answers to shell
Hi,

I have a script that calles some other scripts. Those scripts are expecting some inputs.

Right no I am typing manually. But now the number of questions from other scripts are too much and I want to give asnwers autimatically.

example.

Other scripts gives me 2 options
1) joom
2) aka

what to you want?------- (here I have to type joom or aka)
1) aaa
2) bbb
3) ccc
What do you want?-----(here i have to type my choice)

and this goes on for few times. Everytime the choices are same. So I want to automate this.

thanks for your help!
# 2  
Old 11-04-2011
Have you seen: expect? It may help you with it!

A usefull link: Expect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you don't know anything about expect, you can try: autoexpect -> autoexpect
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# 3  
Old 11-04-2011
Interesting! I thought I could do it with shell script. Looks like I have to learn one more language Smilie

Thanks for the info!
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