Shell question

[Pete]

Hi Mark,
The program in question is sqlite3.  I'm trying to give it commands to
export an sqlite table in the form of INSERT commands.  The program is run
by typeing:

sqlite3 <dbname>

after it has started I need to feed it the following commands:

.mode sql
.output <outputfilename>
SELECT  whatever;
.exit

Those commands all work fine when typed into the program by me but nothing
is written to the output file if I redirect stdin to a file that contains
them.

Seems like that ought to work but I'll try the spawn/send/expect commands
and see if I can get them to work any better.

Pete

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Pete-
>
> I've read through this a couple of times now trying to parse what
> you're trying to do. Here's my guess: you'd like to set up a text file
> of responses to prompts from the myProg program, which would be
> processed at the time myProg wants more input. If so, you should check
> out the "expect" command.
>
> --
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
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Pete
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