Question

I have an interactive program that runs stdin and stdout.
I need to create wrapper that will send X to it’s stdin, check that it prints Y and then
redirects wrapper’s stdin and stdout to program’s stdin and stdout just like program would be executed directly.

How to implement this ? X and Y can be hardcoded. Bash? Python?

Edit: I can’t run the program twice. It has to be one instance.
Here is the pseudocode:

def wrap(cmd, in, expected_out):
  p = exec(cmd)
  p.writeToStdin(in)
  out = p.readBytes (expected_out.size())
  if (out != expected_out) return fail;
  # if the above 4 lines would be absent or (in == "" and out == "")
  # then this wrapper would be exactly like direct execution of cmd
  connectpipe (p.stdout, stdout)
  connectpipe (stdin, p.stdin)
  p.continueExecution() 

Answer 1

Expect is made for automating the running of other programs – essentially you write something like, in plain text,

Start this program. When it prints out the word “username”, send it my username. When it sends “password”, send it my password.

It’s really great for driving other programs.