I run a linux command that sometimes asks for user input (press 1 or 2).
I always want to answer 1, how can I pass this value automatically ?
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I run a linux command that sometimes asks for user input (press 1 or 2).
I always want to answer 1, how can I pass this value automatically ?
Use the pipe
|operator to connect the output of one command to the input of another.If you want to repeat some input to a command, you can use
yes. By default it sends the string “y” repeatedly but it also repeat a different string of your choice.