Answering CPAN questions

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

Hi Guys,

If I want to automate the custom responses to cpan install questions is there some way I can do that in a shell script:

cpan -i DBD::InterBase
bin directory : "/usr/lib/firebird/2.1/bin"
include directory : "/usr/include"
lib directory : "/usr/lib"
libfbembed? (y/n) [n] ""
Full path to your test database: "/foo/bar/test.FDB"
Username :  "SYSDBA"
Password :  "******"
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Thanks in advance

Regards

Steve

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Re: Answering CPAN questions by Anonymous Monk on Feb 06, 2012 at 14:56 UTC
http://p3rl.org/CPAN#Configuration-for-individual-distributions-Distroprefs-	[reply]
Re^2: Answering CPAN questions by Steve_BZ (Chaplain) on Feb 08, 2012 at 18:01 UTC
Hi Anon, Thanks for your post. I'm sure there is some useful information here if I had any idea what it meant, but I'm afraid I'm none the wiser. Sorry, Steve	[reply]
Re^3: Answering CPAN questions by Anonymous Monk on Feb 08, 2012 at 22:46 UTC
Different Anon here I guess, https://metacpan.org/module/CPAN#Configuration-for-individual-distributions-Distroprefs- feature of CPAN , for automating such interactions, and associated distroprefs examples , won't help you write a shell script to automate cpan yeah, too bad this is perlmonks and CPAN is all perl	[reply]