Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:42:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> Cc: <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Keyboard Keystroke in a Shell Script Message-ID: <20010614154002.D5149-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010614152911.0298c728@mail.ideal.net.au>
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Chris, what exactly are you trying to control? You may want to use something like expect, or the p5-Expect Perl module (/usr/ports/lang/p5-Expect) to control the spawned cu command. Joe Clarke On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Chris Aitken wrote: > 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 > > > -- > Chris Aitken - Webmaster/Database Designer - IDEAL Internet > email: chris@ideal.net.au phone: +61 2 4628 8888 fax: +61 2 4628 8890 > -------------------------------------------- > > If the foo shits, call your sysadmin > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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