Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I am looking for a specific requirement. I am trying to create a wrapper over a set of shell scripts. Some shell scripts wait for user inputs. These inputs may not be same format. And will be spread across multiple files.

In short a set of scripts are going to be run on another set of files. The set of scripts can be considered as a single entity. Thats why I am trying to wrap them up. Each file should be given as input to this entity.

So the requirement is I have to pass the input when the script is prompting for that. That also without manual intervention.

Thanks in advance
KRK

If you "know" the questions ahead of time use a here document

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
# args 1 2 3 are file names
# this first one asks for a logfile and file #1
( /path/to/script1 << EOF 
${1}
/path/log/logfile_$( date +%d%m%Y).log
EOF ) &      # run in background
# this script gets answers like dates Y, N -- and filenames
( /path/to/script2 <<EOF
 {$1}
 {$2}
 Y
 Y
 {$3}
 "`date`"
EOF ) &
wait