Shell Programming and Scripting

i have installed vmware on a text base linux node

now i have to vmware-configure.pl to do the initial configuration

now 1st step it askes for agreeing for a " License Agreement"

for that i have to say "q" and "yes" to Accept it

i want to run a script with does these 3 steps without user intervention

1) vmware-configure.pl
2) type "q" to exit the License Agreement
3) type "yes" to Accept it and
4) Ctrl C to come out of it

can we do these with out any user intervention ??

Why not just modify the perl script?

expect can do this

sudo vmware-config.pl << EOF
yes
no
yes
EOF


this is doing the work for me but

how to give a ENTER in that series's as but one blank line doesnt see to work

more clearly --
it show

You must read and accept the End User License Agreement to continue.
Press enter to display it.
--More--(Next file: /usr/share/doc/vmware/EULA)

and when i give a "q" it goes off .. but i am not able to pass this via << EOF

any ideas??

try this prior to running your script.

Code:

export MORE="-e -n 10000"

beautiful tweak that worked )

but is there now way to pass it to << ??

to make much simper

open a man page and display 2 pages by "space" and "space" and then give a "q" and come out

say

man sed << EOF
(space)
(space)
q
EOF

but not sure y it doesnt work ??

Instead of typing a "space" in your <<here doc, you could try giving it the octal value for that keystroke. That may work.