Bash Shell Scrpiting, How can I write a script to run a program which ask for input?

Question

I have a program,

porodry

, which will need read a parameters file to run, suppose the file called

test1

, so if I use bash

I can run

./porodry

terminal will show:

please input your parameters file name:

I will type

test1

then the program start to run, and will have some outputs shows on the terminal, like

Please input an int number:

then I will type something like:

then the program will keep running.

I want to write a script, which will automatically read the input and output the terminal content to a

test1.terminal

file

Please help out!

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Answer 1

It depends on what the program really does. If it just reads from the standard input, you cat just pipe the input to it and redirect the output to a file:

echo test1 | ./porodry > test1.terminal

If it messes with the terminal, you might need expect.

Bash Shell Scrpiting, How can I write a script to run a program which ask for input?

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