I'm running a script in Unix, after every line that print's I need to simulate <ENTER>, I read in unix this is \n.

So for example I type "perl script.pl" which executes this script. So the first command that the script runs is "execopu -text". Then I get a prompt for more data and then I need to script to feed "cell" to the program, and so on for the rest of the "print's" that I do to the screen.

Right now the script just prints all the text to the screen and nothing executes. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

my @sitenumbers = (7,12);

print "execopu -text\n";
print "cell\n";

foreach my $site_number (@sitenumbers){

print <<EOF;
u
csno = $site_number
ccuoosmin_3g1x = ""
ccuoos_3g1x = ""
u
EOF
}

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The screen should read like this
>perl script.pl
>execopu -text                   #This comes from my script

Enter form name:  cell           #The computer asks for the form name 
+and the script populates it with "cell" and then <ENTER>

Enter Operation: u               #The computer asks for "Operation" an
+d the script populates it with "u" and and then <Enter>
Enter Value: csno = $site_number

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And this should continue for the rest of the script.

In reply to Auto Feeding Data to Unix Programs by awohld

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