I'm trying to call another shell script with bash, however this script doesn't accept any command line arguments. Instead, it runs, checks a few things, and then prompts the user for input like this:
Checking....done
Please enter ID #: (user input here)
Is it possible to do this?
Try something like this:
echo "My id" | ./script
Checking... done
Please enter ID: My id
or
./script << EOF
My_id
another input
EOF
Checking... done
Please enter ID: My_id
<blah>
Please enter something: anoter input
The solution is to use expect.
#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn php /path/to/script
expect "ID #: "
send "{ID#}\r"
interact
Reference: Simulate user input in bash script
If you have single input to feed then echo is enough like,
echo "input" | ./script.sh
if you have more than 1 input then expect is good and only option,
record a script as mentioned above and then run it
expect sampleexpect.expec
readcommand?