Re: Keyboard macros?

I think "expect" is what you need...

2010/11/1 David Guntner <[email protected]>:
> Gilles Baudrillard grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> On 27/10/2010 05:30, David Guntner wrote:
>>> I've been using Konsole to do my terminal (shell) work in KDE.  I like
>>> it, but it doesn't seem to have any kind of keyboard macro
>>> functionality.  I'd like to have it be able to record what I'm doing as
>>> I key my way through various repetitive steps and save it so that I can
>>> then hit one key and have it repeat the whole bloody complicated
>>> process, thus saving me typing. :-)
>>>
>>> Is there any such console program available under Mandriva 2010.1?
>>
>> use the command script (it opens a child shell) :
>>
>> script mysession
>>
>> ... do your session ....
>>
>> close the script file with control-D
>>
>> Now the file 'mysession' will contain all inputs and outputs
>> of your session.
>
> Interesting looking program, but that's not what I'm looking for.  I
> need something that will record all my inputs to be saved to a macro
> command file of some kind, so that I can simply run that macro script to
> repeat all those key-ins in order with control keys as well as regular
> alpha-numeric key-ins, to perform that task automatically.  What I'm
> trying to do is set something up so that it will start a "screen"
> session, create several session windows within it and execute the
> commands needed to get everything set up.  If knowing that helps. :-)
>
> It seems like such a basic thing; I can't believe that there's no
> terminal console program out there that doesn't have a "record
> keystrokes" function to record a macro that can then be executed by the
> terminal console program via a click or hotkey.....
>
>           --Dave
>
>



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