Re: redirecting stdin on windows

[myocom]

What you're asking to do doesn't require Perl at all - the shell can already do it. Create a text file with the username on one line and the password on the next <insert speech about how you shouldn't store passwords in plaintext>. Then, you can simply do myexe.exe < answer.txt where answer.txt is the "answer file" you created.

If you really wanted to get Perl involved for some other reason, you could do this same thing from a call to system.

"One word of warning: if you meet a bunch of Perl programmers on the bus or something, don't look them in the eye. They've been known to try to convert the young into Perl monks." - Frank Willison

[arkamedis21]

I tried doing

command < input_file

but it only works if the command asks for one input entry, in windows.

[myocom]

Funny, it works for the following (on WinXP):

script.pl

print "username: ";
chomp ($uname = <STDIN>);
print "\npassword: ";
chomp ($password = <STDIN>);
print "\nYou entered username $uname and password $password\n";

answer.txt

someusername
somepassword

And I'm calling it like this:

perl script.pl < answer.txt

...which produces this:

C:\test\scratch>perl script.pl < answer.txt
username:
password:
You entered username someusername and password somepassword

...which is the expected output.
"One word of warning: if you meet a bunch of Perl programmers on the bus or something, don't look them in the eye. They've been known to try to convert the young into Perl monks." - Frank Willison