From: Raimon Fs <coder@...>
Date: 2009-02-25T16:47:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Ruby interact with the shell sh ?

> If you just want responses from commands, you can simply use lines like 
> response  = `command`
> On the other hand, if you need to interact multiple times with a program 
> *other* than the shell, during the course of it's runtime, I think you'd 
> want to use IO.popen.

I have to interact with the shell:

This is the code I'm using in another language:

me.Execute "sh"

me.Write "vpnclient connect customer_net user xxxxxxx pwd 
xxxxxxxxxx"+Chr(13)


and then I have to read the answers that are coming from the shell, and 
when it asks something, write again to it:

here I'm waiting for a /y/n) and I have to write to it 'y' (yes), and 
then the vpn connection is established.

I'm not following you with the response  = `command`

All info that I have is about irb, but I want the unix 'shell'

thanks,

r.



  Dim data as String
  data=me.ReadAll

  if data.Right(7) = "(y/n): " then

    me.Write "y"+Chr(13)

  elseif data.InStr("Your VPN connection is secure") > 0 then

    connected=True

    app.print "VPN connection established"

  end if
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