[chef] Re: Re: simulate key press in a recipe

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

You can use the ruby PTY module, but it’s very tricky to do this in a 
reliable way. For example, these tests start chef-shell, wait for it to 
finish initializing and then exit. IO handling and timeout stuff is the vast 
majority of the code. 
https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/master/spec/functional/shell_spec.rb  ;

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Daniel DeLeo


On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:

> 2015-03-06 2:06 GMT+03:00 Medya 
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> > I know if you have to do that, it means something is wrong ! but for some
> > legacy application I really need to run a shell script wait a few seconds
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> > type something and hit "Enter"
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> > is it possible in chef?
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> use expect for this, or write in ruby needed logic inside recipe.
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