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Re: run makecat with an input file
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Angelic Engel wrote:
> We are using Minivend for an Internet Provider to create small (standard)
> stores. By doing this, we want to create stores via another (perl) process,
> which means not via the command line.
> We use FreeBSD, Perl5.004 and Minivend 3.12.
>
> I tried using makecat with the next parameters:
> bin/makecat -f filename -catalogname thecatalog
>
> The file that is included contains a lot of parameters like hostname etc.
> When I run makecat, the content of this file is not read and makecat still
> asks for all the parameters. The only thing it does is reading the -f and the
> filename, but it looks as if it does not handle the content of the file.
>
> Another solution is to get it running by giving the right parameters via the
> input, but I would prefer a cleaner solution with parameter passing.
>
> Has somebody used makecat in combination with a file that contains all
> parameters? What is the best way to handle this?
>
The way I went about this was to just redirect the input from a file
instead of the console.
makecat catname < settings
There is probably a better way, but this works fine for me.
