Passing arguments to an interactive program non-interactively

Question

I have a bash script that employs the read command to read arguments to commands interactively, for example yes/no options. Is there a way to call this script i

Answer 1

For more complex tasks there is expect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect ). It basically simulates a user, you can code a script how to react to specific program outputs and related stuff.

This also works in cases like ssh that prohibits piping passwords to it.