Re: auto interactive jobs

[eben@gmx.us]

On 11/21/24 19:37, Bitfox wrote:
> On 2024-11-22 08:28, eben@gmx.us wrote:
>> On 11/21/24 19:24, Bitfox wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have a interactive command like the following,
>>>
>>> $ ./filen
>>> / > upload upt-snappy /
>>> Uploading upt-snappy [========================================] 100% | ETA:
>>> 0s | 1.4 KiB / 1.32 KiB
>>> / >
>>>
>>>
>>> the command "filen" will open a interactive shell, and in this shell to
>>> upload/download files.
>>>
>>> How can I write a script for this case to upload file automatically?
>>
>> Can you do something like
>> echo "upload upt-snappy p" | ./filen
>> ?
>
> That seems impossible.
>
> $ echo "upload tmp" |./filen
> upload tmp
> Error trying to prompt for user input: readline was closed. (maybe you're in
> an environment without stdin, like a Docker container)
> Error [ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE]: readline was closed

I'm not familiar with filen.  Does it have an option like "read input from
file X"?  Or heck use expect, as others have suggested.