Many ways -- environment variables, parameters on the command lines used to invoke shell scripts, user prompts...
-- Bhaskar -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Nancy Anthracite Sent: Fri 9/2/2005 7:30 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Starting TASKMAN no interactive way How do you supply an input in advance with a shell script without using Expect or something similar? On Friday 02 September 2005 09:00 am, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: Fred -- In this case, simple shell scripting would meet the needs. Wouldn't expect and TCL be appropriate for complex scripts, which VistA doesn't appear to need? -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 09:36 -0500, Fred Trotter wrote: > Generally expect functionality would probably help with lots of the > startup and installation functions of VistA. > > I would suggest however, that you use either the perl or python > expect > modules. Especially the python - excpect module would help to ensure > that your code was readable and maintainable. expect as a language is > something of a one trick pony (although tcl is more powerful) > > Regards, > -FT ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Nancy Anthracite ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
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