Simulating input without actually typing

[akelabanda]

Hi

I am trying to simulate keystrokes in my program
without actually typing a character and "\n".

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#!/usr/bin/perl

@test = `pkgadd -d /export/home/raj/BOLTpget.pkg`;
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This will display

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The following packages are available:
1 BOLTpget pkg-get
(all) 1.9.5

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:
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Now I want to have a "q" and "\n" input automatically
such that the program does not wait for manual input.

Ideally I want to read this screen into a list (@output)
for further processing.

Please help.

Regards
Rajeev

 

[sampsonr]

If your script doesn't require any other manual inputs, the normal way to do this is with input redirection. Create a file (/tmp/q.txt) containing just a q and a newline. Then execute your script as:

myscript.pl < /tmp/q.txt

or

cat /tmp/q.txt | myscript.pl

 

[justice41]

Can you use the -n flag to run pkgadd in non-interactive mode? This would be much easier than waiting on a terminal prompt if all you want to do is quit when you are done.

jaa

 

[NEVERSLEEP]

Windows Script File

<Job Id=&quot;WshShell&quot;>
<script language=PerlScript>
 $WshShell = $WScript->CreateObject(&quot;WScript.Shell&quot;);
 $WshShell->Run(&quot;notepad&quot;, 5);
 $WshShell->AppActivate(&quot;Untitled - Notepad&quot;);
 my $message = &quot;Hello from PerlScript!\n&quot;;
 for($i=0; $i < length($message); $i++) {
  $char = substr($message, $i, 1);
  $WScript->Sleep(100);
  $WshShell->SendKeys($char);
 }
</script>
</job>

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[akelabanda]

sampsonr
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Thanx for your help. This is one way of doing it. But
I would like to avoid using a file for this purpose.
Is there any other way ?

justice41
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Thx. I want to capture the 1st screen. That's the reason
I dont use the -n option.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards
Rajeev