Hello guys, I need help with writing a ksh, csh or bash script which will call another script and input arguments for the called upon script. The script wich I'm excuting is asking for input information such as choose 1, 2 .. and then further it asks for more inputs before it provides me with an answer. I need its final output for my script. Thanks in advance Linda

I think perl is probably a better choice of what you are thinking about... You should check out O'reilly's Learning Perl or Programming Perl. You can get a real good deal for both at amazon.com! taurus

the guy answered just because it's a girl. Guess I'm gonna change my nick to Pamela Anderson...

If this is a question about automating a script that already exists by running it from another script, your best bet is to use expect. You can generate a working script really easily with autoexpect.

I don't know whether you want to be funny or an idiot!!! If you look at some of the posts on this forum, you would know that I answer to all names/people whenever I can! So, I don't care if you come from Mars and have a question about Linux, I would answer it too (if I feel like it)! So just you know. I don't care if your name is now Pamela Anderson! The lady has no talent except running her mouth and those silicon boobs... So, stop being an idiot and do something useful with your time. taurus

You can create simple user menus in bash, eg: #!/bin/bash OPTIONS="Hello Quit" select opt in $OPTIONS; do if [ "$opt" = "Quit" ]; then echo done exit elif [ "$opt" = "Hello" ]; then echo Hello World else clear echo bad option fi done Check out the Bash Programming Intro: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html Perl is still a good idea, I tend to use it more than bash scripting just because I know it better.