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The magic of the expect command on Linux
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expect_demo.sh
#!/usr/bin/env expect
spawn bluetoothctl # start the process you want to talk with
expect -re {\[bluetooth\]} # wait for a particular input to come in based on the regex
send "default-agent" # generate whatever output and send it to the process
send "\n"
interact # drop to an interactive session with the open process
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