X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C8014CE.9050002@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:19:10 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: simulating console input References: <20100902074703.GA11464@gaston.couberia.bzh> <4C7FC3B4.1060606@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 09/02/2010 03:17 PM, RISINGP1@nationwide.com wrote: >>> How could I simulate the "Y" keypress? >>> >>> "echo Y | DosProgram.exe" does not work... >>> > Would an inline document work? > > DosProgram.exe< Y > ! No. Bash uses a pipe under the hood for here-docs, so it is no different than the already-established non-working 'echo Y | program'. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple