Hello all,

I am echoing a number of parameters into a control file for use later in my script. The program requires a carriage return after parameter entry, in order for it to continue with the next question.

Does anyone know how I can supply a carriage return in my control file. In other words I need to reproduce a keyboard entry of Carriage Return to my program via my control file parameters.


echo "1" >> $cntr

echo "yes" >> $cntr

echo "no" >> $cntr

program < $cntr

Thanks in advance...

Try:

echo "\n" >> $cntr

you can also try

echo "" >> $cntr

Gus ;-)

Can't you just echo your 'answers' in to the program rather than write them to a file?

e.g.

----------------------------

# prog.sh

read ans1
read ans2
read ans3

echo ans1 is $ans1
echo ans2 is $ans2
echo ans3 is $ans3

----------------------------


echo "yourAnswer1\nyourAnswer2\nyourAnswer3" | prog.sh


Or without the echo...

prog.sh << !!
yourAnswer1
yourAnswer2
yourAnswer3
!!