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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:38:25 +1000
From:      Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au>
To:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Keyboard Keystroke in a Shell Script
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20010614152911.0298c728@mail.ideal.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <550B4D6FA776D3118D1D00902799170C6086AD@CQOS1>

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Hi all,

I got a bit of a curley one that I cant seem to find any answers.....

Im writing a shell script (or possibly a perl script... depending on how it 
needed to be implimented) and im very much a novice at this stuff. What 
this script is doing, is accessing a device hanging off the serial port of 
a FreeBSD 3.4 box.

Im using cu to access the port, and I can issue the required commands on 
the command line no dramas. What I want to do is write a script which will 
excecute cu in the command line, issuing the needed lines of data and get 
out. Here is an example of how I would be accessing the device.....

-----------
% cu -l /dev/cuaa1 -s 38400

ABCD1234<cr>
Hello, this is a sentence<ctrl z>

-----------

How do I issue the <cr> and the <ctrl Z> keyboard strokes to cu in a 
script? Im pretty sure I can work out how to send the required commands and 
text, but the keyboard strokes are bugging me.


Any help would be great.... Thanks


Chris


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