I have a test program which prompts for input from user(stdin), and depending on inputs, it asks for other inputs, which also need to be entered.
is there a way I can have a script do all this work ?
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I have a test program which prompts for input from user(stdin), and depending on inputs, it asks for other inputs, which also need to be entered.
is there a way I can have a script do all this work ?
There’s a program called expect that does pretty much exactly what you want — you can script inputs and expected outputs and responses based on those outputs, as simple or complex as you need. See also the wikipedia entry for expect