Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:09:00 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen <freebsd@alson.linuxfreak.nl> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard Keystroke in a Shell Script Message-ID: <20010614140900.J27948@md2.mediadesign.nl> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010614152911.0298c728@mail.ideal.net.au> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010614152911.0298c728@mail.ideal.net.au>
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:38:25PM +1000, 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. echo 'ABCD1234 Hello, this is a sentence'|cu -l /dev/cuaa1 -s 38400 should do the trick, or try using cat <<EOF|cu foo bar EOF (this is only tested in bash, guess it works for sh too) EOF should be sent automatically... -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: alson@linuxfreak.nl < > School: alson@gymnasiumleiden.nl < `-------------------------------------------' Well, my files were backed up. --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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