expect looks very interesting.  I've never used it before.  I will have to
make some time to play around with it to see what all it can do.

Paul

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Brandon Oglesby <[email protected]> wrote:

> What about an expect script that takes your password as a parameter?
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I need to run a provided program from the command line.
>> It starts an X program.
>> It then prompts for a password from the command line.
>>
>> I'd like to continue on at the command line after entering the password
>> (rather than having to open another bash session) while the program
>> continues to run.
>>
>> You can't just append ' &' because it asks for a password as input.  So
>> it hangs the process, waiting for input.
>>
>> Call me nuts, but I don't like saving an important password in a local
>> file, so I'm pretty sure redirecting STDIN is out.
>>
>> Is there any way to enter the password and then tell it to fork, from the
>> command line?  (I don't think there is, but it would be really nice.)
>>
>> Paul
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