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How to automatically enter input into Bash script?
You can supply user input to your script with cat, from a text file, piped to your script with bash like this: Just put your desired user input into your input.txt file, whatever answers you want – y, n, digits, strings, etc. I was writing a bash script with Dialog and needed this to happen automatically also.
How to automatically launch Bash shell in Ubuntu?
I create a normal user account in ubuntu using “useradd” command, but the problem is that I have to type “bash” to launch the bash shell for this user account in both the console mode (in a tty, through ctrl+alt+Fn) and the remote mode (via ssh).
How to use enter keypress in bash script?
I’ve created a really simple bash script that runs a few commands. one of these commands needs user input during runtime. i.e it asks the user “do you want to blah blah blah?”, I want to simply send an enter keypress to this so that the script will be completely automated.
How do I automatically answer y in bash script?
The exception would be if uninstall decides to flush the input before asking the question. All those assume the uninstall command just reads each answer as one line of input from its standard input.
How to pass yes to all prompts in Bash?
Just want to add one more way. Found it elsewhere, and is quite simple. Say I want to pass yes for all the prompts at command line for a command “execute_command”, Then I would simply pipe yes to it. This will use yes as the answer to all yes/no prompts. You can also use printf to pipe the input to your script. Highly active question.
How to write a bash script that answers interactive prompts?
A Sample Script That Requires Multiple Inputs Let’s consider a bash script that asks three simple questions to the user: #!/usr/bin/env bash echo “Hello, please introduce yourself.” echo -n “Your name: ” read -r name echo “Are you human?” echo -n “y/n: ” read -r human echo “What is your favorite programming language?”
Is there a way to pass sensitive data in Bash?
It’s fine for secrets to be in (non-exported) shell variables, but you can never use those variables on command lines, only in here-documents and shell internals.