> If you need something that's typically interactive to run automatically 
> and unattended, then Expect is often a good solution.

There is also a perl-Expect module; so you don't *have* to learn another 
scripting language, just wrap it up in perl.
http://search.cpan.org/~rgiersig/Expect/

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