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Hi,

I am writing a little script to update a parameters on JMQ. however the JMQ requires a "y" confirmation to be input as part of the cmd I am running. However I want run this script to offline with no input from a user.

it works if a I create a file with with just y in it and pass that in but how do a do it with out creating the extra yes.txt file?

%> ./imqcmd <bunch of switches> < yes.txt <--- works
%> ./imqcmd <bunch of switches> < "y" <----- how do I do this properly so there's no need for the yes.txt

Use a here-string:

Code:

%> ./imqcmd <bunch of switches> <<<y

Even if you put on quotes < still expects a filename so that won't work.

There's a few ways.

Code:

echo "Y" | ./script

Code:

./script <<EOF
Y
EOF

Note the ending EOF is at the beginning of the line and must be at the beginning of the line.

Thanks - it's been annoying me for an hour that one.