Hi Paul! On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:21:06 +0200 Paul Johnson <p...@pjcj.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 04:04:22PM +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've to run a very old application from the command line (unix), it > > seems to me a ncurses application but I'm not sure that is the real > > case (let's say it seems ncurses). > > Anyway, I have to launch the application with a file name, do a couple > > of menu interactions and exit, then do it again for a hundred or so > > files. > > Is there any kind of "app-mechanize" similar to www::mechanize? > > Nothing to do with perl, but you could try xdotool > > http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/ > The original poster was asking about automating an ncurses/etc. unix *terminal* app - not an X11-based app which is what xdotool is for. Note that for X11, there's https://metacpan.org/release/X11-GUITest on CPAN and other similar toolkits in other languages as well. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ The devil created a 10th circle of hell for the inventors of XSLT, because the first nine circles were too mild for them. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/XSLT/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
