saintmike has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Esteemed monks,

has anybody ever worked on a solution to have the CPAN shell ignore prompts for interactive user input ("Do you want to run tests against your local mysql database (y/n)?" and just simulate a disgruntled user hammering on the return key, accepting all default just to get it over with?

I presume it could be done via Expect, and I seem to remember that someone once told me CPANPLUS did that, but I can't find it now.

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Re: Hammering on Return key during CPAN install
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Oct 28, 2004 at 07:09 UTC
    I presume it could be done via Expect, ...
    No. See the documentation for prompt in ExtUtils::MakeMaker. All CPAN authors should use a prompt function compatible with MakeMaker.

    update: Yes it could be done using Expect but no, you don't want to do that.

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