The tool 'yes' can be used to write an infinite stream of strings (the default being 'y') to standard output, so if your program needed only a sequence of a fixed string such as 'y', you could do
> yes | your-program or > yes "some-other-string" | your-program But if your program is not reading strictly from standard input (there are other ways to get keyboard/interactive input), then… On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:58:58PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > Maybe you'll need something like expect to handle this. I'd second expect, it's probably the best tool for the job in all non-trivial cases. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131104100536.ga2...@bryant.redmars.org
