Invoke gdb to automatically pass arguments to the program being debugged

Question

I\'d like to write a script that (under certain conditions) will execute gdb and automatically run some program X with some set of arguments Y. Once the program has finishe

Answer 1

If you want to run some commands through GDB and then have it exit or run to completion, just do

echo commands | gdb X

If you want to leave it at the command prompt after running those commands, you can do

(echo commands; cat) | gdb X

This results in echoing the commands to GDB, and then you type into the cat process, which copies its stdin to stdout, which is piped into GDB.