From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-10-01T03:12:36+09:00
Subject: Re: command line question.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitrii PapaGeorgio [mailto:vrenna@woh.rr.comNOSPAM] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 11:59 AM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: command line question.
> 
> 
> Actually I made up the example using ssh.
> 
> I have a lot of apps which asks for user id, password, host, 
> etc. So I 
> wanted to know if there was something I could use...for an example.
> 
> id = "james"
> pwd = "pwd"
> host = "local"
> 
> have the code above launch to a specific system command like ssh
> 
> so when prompted for user id...vairable id would be sent, for 
> pwd, etc.

See ruby-expect on the RAA, or Expect in general.  Unfortunately,
ruby-expect isn't really supported any longer and was buggy the last time I
played with it.

Regards,

Dan