bashinteractivenon-interactive

Passing arguments to an interactive program non-interactively


I have a bash script that employs the read command to read arguments to commands interactively, for example yes/no options. Is there a way to call this script in a non-interactive script passing default option values as arguments?

It's not just one option that I have to pass to the interactive script.


Solution

  • For more complex tasks there is expect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect ). It basically simulates a user, you can code a script how to react to specific program outputs and related stuff.

    This also works in cases like ssh that prohibits piping passwords to it.