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

[Ranjib Dey < >]

you can use stdlib based module PTY from lwrp/hwrps:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.2.1/libdoc/pty/rdoc/PTY.html

chef's mixlib-shellout library too support STDIN arguments:

https://github.com/chef/mixlib-shellout#stdin-example

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Vasiliy Tolstov < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

2015-03-06 2:06 GMT+03:00 Medya < "> >:
> 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
> and then
> type something and  hit "Enter"
>
> is it possible in chef?

use expect for this, or write in ruby needed logic inside recipe.

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