How to wrap an interactive command

[Wuming Gong]

Hi,

There is an interactive command running under linux console (actually,
it is command "efn" in secondary structure predicting package mfold).
It reads one input data and asks several questions one by one and I
have to type "yes", "no" or others under the prompt. However, I hope to
write a perl to wrap this command and parse a bunch of data
automatically. Could anyone give me some hints on how to write such
wrapper?

Best Regards,

Wuming Gong

 

[nobull]

Hi,

There is an interactive command running under linux console (actually,
it is command "efn" in secondary structure predicting package mfold).
It reads one input data and asks several questions one by one and I
have to type "yes", "no" or others under the prompt. However, I hope to
write a perl to wrap this command and parse a bunch of data
automatically. Could anyone give me some hints on how to write such
wrapper?

vvvvvv
I >>>>Expect<<<< there's something to do this on CPAN.
^^^^^^

Well, you did ask for a hint.

 

[Wuming Gong]

I found this topic related to IPC(See perldoc perlipc). Though now I am
not very clear about the mechanism, I found a sample code for wrapping
interactive command
(http://cvs.bioperl.org/cgi-bin/view...=bioperl&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup)

Thanks, anyway.

Wuming

 

[Wuming Gong]

See function _run() in above page.

Wuming