How do I use bluetoothctl in a bash script to advertise a custom BLE service ?

Hello everyone,
So I'm trying to execute bluetoothctl cammands in a script but I haven't been successful.
I want to use bluetoothctl in a script in odrer to advertise a custom BLE service and it actually works in terminal but in script it doesn't get past the first line.
There are the commands that I want to use:

bluetoothctl and then
menu gatt
back
register-service <<uuid>>
register-characteristic <<uuid>>
advertise on

In the script I put:

#!/bin/bash

bluetoothctl <<EOF menu gatt
back
register-service 0xffe0
EOF

Unfortunatly it just outputs the menu as if it's not reading the following command. Can anyone please help me out??

Can't make anything from what you posted.

and it actually works in terminal

Show what commands you executed in the terminal and the results.
Copy/paste the whole thing if you want to.

Hi Chams Akrout,

It might be helpful if you could give us some additional details, such as what Linux Distribution you are using, or how you came to use the particular collection of inputs you are using to the bluetoothctl command.

In the Linux Distribution I'm using, the bluetoothctl is in the bluez package, but AFAIK, although there are manual pages on some of the other bluetooth related commands, there is no manual page or info document on the bluetoothctl command provided by the Linux Distribution. While it is possible to get the source for the package through the source repository for the Linux Distribution, or through bluez.org then look through the source, and realize that there seem to be some directives such as you are using that are supported by the bluez.org source, a particular Distribution might have chosen to change the behavior of the command.

Just in general terms, if I put the following code in a BASH script within the Linux Distribution I'm using, the "menu gatt" WILL be passed to the bluetoothctl command ( or virtually any other command for that matter ) as options. I've actually tested this.

#!/bin/bash

bluetoothctl <<EOF menu gatt 
back
register-service 0xffe0
EOF

AFAIK, the following approach is much more reliable:

#!/bin/bash

bluetoothctl <<EOF
menu gatt 
back
register-service 0xffe0
EOF

Hope this helps.

Thanks for answering me, as for the linux distribution I'm using ubuntu 18.04 and it contains the latest version of BlueZ and I actually didn't know about it untill I had to dive deeper into the uses of bluetooth because I'm using it to communicate with my phone using a web app and web bluetooth. That's why I need my computer to start advertising this ble service that I made in order for my phone to detect it. I know that maybe this is not really clear but that's what I'm trying to do. So some reasurch led me to this bluetoothctl and I'm trying to figure out its uses and if it's going to be helpfull or not.

#!/bin/bash

bluetoothctl <<EOF
menu gatt 
back
register-service 0xffe0
EOF

This actually worrks thank you.
Now I need to figure out how to make use of it and how it will serve my purposes.