autoterm

Automate interactive terminal sessions with JavaScript

Installation

npm install autoterm

Usage

Create a script:

// task-runner.js
#!/usr/bin/env node
'use strict'
const autoterm = require('autoterm')
const t = autoterm({shell: 'sh', prompt: /\$\s+$/, echo: true})

async function runner() {
	await t.run('ls')
	await t.run('exit')
}
runner()

Then run your script:

$ node ./task-runner.js

It's that easy!

If you need to change the prompt recognition regular expression temporarily, use:

await t.push(/new-prompt-recoginzer-regex> $/).run('ssh ...')
// ...
await t.pop().run('exit') // go back to old prompt recognizer

This is useful for if you SSH into a server that has a different prompt than the computer autoterm starts executing commands on.

If you need to disconnect stdin from a running TTY, just call kbd(false). You can later turn it back on with kbd(true). This is useful if you want to automate two different terminals at once, and choose which one to send keyboard data to.

API

kbd(pipeKeyboardToTTY: boolean)
run(cmd: string, prompt?: string|RegExp): Promise<string>
push(prompt: string|RegExp)
pop()

License

ISC License (ISC) Copyright (c) 2016, Jonathan Apodaca [email protected]

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.