On Wednesday 05 October 2005 17:43, Mike Branda wrote:
> anybody know how to in essence "auto fill" a read in sh/bash??
>
> for example:
>
> foo.sh runs another program inside itself that asks a question and then
> waits for a return off of a read. Based on a test of the question
> (redirected from stdout?) a predefined variable is entered as the answer
> and then returned somehow to the inside program.
>
> Is this possible? I have a config program that has to be run multiple
> times (different machines) with the same answers.
If bash turns control over to shell for stdinput then it's waiting until the
end of the world. If you ran a keyboard scanner then you could do this, as it
detects key pressed and you can do something with that.
--Steve Szmidt
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