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Send keystrokes in console mode
Name: Reginaldo Date: July 24, 2003 at 08:07:16 Pacific OS: Red Hat 7.2 CPU/Ram: P4-256
Comment:
Hi, folks!
Is there any way (or application) to send keystrokes to buffer in console mode on Linux, like some programs do in command line mode on Windows? (i.e. sendkey.exe) I want to automate some tasks that requires user intervention on my Linux systems, and I already tried to search on the net for something like this, but without success. I would be greatly thankful if some of you show me a solution.
Name: nelfer Date: July 24, 2003 at 11:00:15 Pacific
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What exactly is what you are trying to do? te ayuda si hablo en espaņol?
There are some program, like "yes" that will send "yes" to the standard output, so you can pipe it.
For example:
yes | rm -r /temp
That will answer "yes" to every question that "rm" has, like "Delete regular file xxxxxx?"
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Response Number 2
Name: David Perry Date: July 25, 2003 at 05:31:00 Pacific
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For automating interactive tasks, have a look at expect.
http://expect.nist.gov/
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Response Number 3
Name: Reginald0 Date: August 27, 2003 at 06:12:34 Pacific
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It's me again.
I finally decided to learn more about a program called "expect" that comes with the Red Hat CD-ROM and it does what I want. Moreover it's pretty easy to use.
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