[ksh] How to respond to questions

Aziz · 11-15-2005, 08:30 AM

hello guys,

I have a program which you invoke like:

qtpasswd username

then it asks for password, and then to confirm password..

I wanted to create a korn shell script which I will send the username AND password and it excutes that script (All i want is one line, so i can excute it via php shell_exec)..

thanks for any ideas,

currently I have:

PHP Code:



if [[ $# < 2 ]] 
then 
        print "Username and/or password not given" 
        print "===========EXITING================" 
        exit 
fi 
 
qtpasswd $1 
$2 
$2

but then it waits for the password, and then excutes the password..

anyway to tell it to take the $2 as the pasword and confirmation..

Thanks again,

jlliagre · 11-16-2005, 01:23 AM

Try "expect".

bigearsbilly · 11-17-2005, 04:30 AM

I usually do this:

Code:

echo  "$1\n$2" | qtpasswd

if it's not clever enough to use /dev/tty it should work
bash needs echo -e ksh doesn't