Question

I am trying to create a shell script that is able to run the Filebench benchmark utility. Filebench allows you perform a variety of FileIO tests to ascertain performance. To run it manually you first type >sudo filebench – this then gives you the following prompt >filebench> – you then type >load – and finally the duration of the test >run 60. I have been attempting to do this with the following script but it just hangs at the filebench> prompt waiting for more input.

#! /bin/bash

sudo filebench 
load filemicro_seqread 
run 60 

echo "Starting test" $(date +"%H:%M:%S") >> seqRead.txt

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

Untested, but will this work?:

sudo filebench << SCRIPT >> seqRead.txt
load
run 60
SCRIPT

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