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

You can put the data in a file and re-direct it like this:

$ cat file.sh
#!/bin/bash

read x
read y
echo $x
echo $y

Data for the script:

$ cat data.txt
2
3

Executing the script:

$ file.sh < data.txt
2
3