[ale] slaving a process

Tue Mar 5 14:50:04 EST 2002

"Tommie M. Jones" wrote:
> 
> I have a executable that I want to slave to a perl script.
> Basically it is a menu driven compiled program... we will call it 'Menu'
> 
> I have a perl script that I want the Menu program to read stanard input
> too and write standard output too.
> 
> The perl script I can change.  The menu program I cannot.
> 
> So given this I was thinking along the lines of
> 
> menu_driver.pl | Menu > /tmp/named_pipe.out
> 
> and then have menu_driver.pl read from the named_pipe.
> 
> Will this work.
> Is there a better way.

expect is your friend.  It's just the ticket for automating user input.

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