Hi All,
I have installed  FReeBSD and I am writing a shell script which can do
the updating ports tree, installing system tools etc. When I am doing
it manually ,I need to select some options.
I want to automate that whole process. How can I do so. I know the
sequence of questions as well the respective answers to be selected .
Are there any way we can automate that part writing a shell script ?

Thanks,
Aditi Dave

On 2009-01-09, aditidave@gmail.com <aditidave@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have installed  FReeBSD and I am writing a shell script which can do
> the updating ports tree, installing system tools etc. When I am doing
> it manually ,I need to select some options.
> I want to automate that whole process. How can I do so. I know the
> sequence of questions as well the respective answers to be selected .
> Are there any way we can automate that part writing a shell script ?

Depends. What kind of interface is it ? read ? dialog ? Some
other curses interface ? If one of the latter two, take a look
at Expect, it might be what you need.

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At 2009-01-09 06:28PM, "Andre Majorel" wrote:
>  On 2009-01-09, aditidave@gmail.com <aditidave@gmail.com> wrote:
>  
> > I have installed  FReeBSD and I am writing a shell script which can do
> > the updating ports tree, installing system tools etc. When I am doing
> > it manually ,I need to select some options.
> > I want to automate that whole process. How can I do so. I know the
> > sequence of questions as well the respective answers to be selected .
> > Are there any way we can automate that part writing a shell script ?
>  
>  Depends. What kind of interface is it ? read ? dialog ? Some
>  other curses interface ? If one of the latter two, take a look
>  at Expect, it might be what you need.

And if you're new to Expect, check out (1) autoexpect, and (2) Exploring
Expect -- http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565920903/


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