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Sometimes the biggest problem is just asking the right question. I am trying to automate a setup in which part of the script must call a program (boo) that has its own CLI. I make several commands at the standard prompt but then call boo a program that gives me a new prompt. Rather than the script feeding lines to the new prompt the script hangs because it is waiting for boo to terminate but it won't until it gets a quit command.

What is this called? I don't think its a sub shell cause I'm not trying to runt things in parallel. It's still a linear set of commands its just that the shell prompt is replaced by boo's prompt until boo is quit.

If I knew what it was called I could do a better search.

TIA

Norm

If boo just reads commands from the standard input, you can feed some to it from your script: