#!/usr/bin/perl -w ## Demonstration of chatting with a bash shell. use strict ; use IPC::Run qw( start pump finish timeout ) ; $IPC::Run::debug = 10 ; my ( $in, $out ) ; die "usage: runsu " unless @ARGV ; my $user = @ARGV > 1 ? shift : $ENV{USER} || $ENV{USERNAME} ; my $passwd = shift ; my $h = start( [qw(su - ), $user], 'pty>', \$out, timeout( 5 ), ) ; pump $h until $out =~ /^password/im ; $in = "$passwd\n" ; ## Assume atomic prompt writes ## and that a non-word is the last char in the prompt. $out = '' ; pump $h until $out =~ /([^\r\n\w]\s*)(?!\n)$/ ; my $prompt = $1 ; print "Detected prompt string = '$prompt'\n" ; $prompt = quotemeta $prompt ; for ( qw( ls ps fOoBaR pwd ) ) { $in = $_ . "\n" ; $out = '' ; $h->timeout( 5 ) ; # restart the timout pump $h until $out =~ s/\A((?s:.*))(?=^.*?$prompt(?!\n)\Z)//m ; print map { "su: $_\n" } split( /\n/m, $1 ) ; } $in = "exit\n" ; finish $h ;