Re: How to control input of an external program?

What's wrong with specifying the user/password on the command line? Save yourself the pain. From the man page:

     -u/--user <user:password>
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Re^2: How to control input of an external program? by klactose (Initiate) on Nov 09, 2009 at 19:47 UTC
that will work for this specific instance, but what about in general?	[reply]
Re^3: How to control input of an external program? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 09, 2009 at 20:06 UTC
You already have the general solution. (Send the input to the program's STDIN.) You're asking for a specific solution. (For some reason, `curl` reads the password from the tty, not STDIN.)	[reply] [d/l]