I am currently dealing with a cshell script that I need to run on my servers, I cannot modify the cshell script. I wanted to automate running the script, which I have succeeded in launching the script, but the script has questions to be answered - examples:
Choose 1 for Linux, Choose 2 for Windows, or 3 to exit:
What is the system hostname:
etc.....
I want to be able to answer these questions through the python script. I have searched the standard Google searches, but I am unfamiliar with the results nothing seems to quite be the answer - does anyone know of any modules that can perform this function, with some good examples that I can see to help with the comprehension of putting this together, any recommendations or suggestions are appreciated? Thanks for your consideration!
The canonical tool to drive an interactive tool is expect.
See https://core.tcl.tk/expect/index for more information.
Your expect script, given your example, would be something like:
expect -re "Choose 1.*exit:"
send -- "1\r"
expect "hostname:"
send -- "$hostname\r"
Once you've got the expect script working you can call this simply from Python.