Shell Help

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Mon May 14 16:13:54 BST 2007


On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:03:16PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> In a shell script I'm launching an app which is particularly chatty and
> wants to spew a load of stuff to the command line as it starts up.
> Unfortunately it also spews its error messages to stdout WHICH MAKES SIMON
> ANGRY.
[...]
> Anybody got any ideas?

This might be a job for Expect.

Or rewrite the crock to do something sane.



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