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Re: do shell script and prompts
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Re: do shell script and prompts


  • Subject: Re: do shell script and prompts
  • From: Brent Baisley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:19:35 -0500

You can output literal text from a shell script, like in response to a prompt, by using this syntax:
<<ANYTEXT
password
ANYTEXT

The important piece is the <<, which tells the shell script to output the text between the ANYTEXT as if it was typed from the keyboard.


On Mar 17, 2004, at 10:15 PM, Steve Roy wrote:

Good evening,

Is there a way to handle prompts with 'do shell script'? What I'd like
to do is run the 'cvs login' command but it gives a command line prompt
for the password. I've tried to put the password on a new line like
this:

set thePassword to "abc"
do shell script "cvs -d " & theCVSRoot & " login; " & thePassword

But that didn't work. The result was:

CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server roydesign.dyndns.org
rejected access
sh: line 1: abc: command not found

Is there a way to do this?

Steve
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