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Hi,

Does anyone know how to send commands to a shell that is already opened?

I know how to open the shell to run a command, but how do I send another command to it?

Here is what I can do

Shell("C:\Backup\mysqlbackup.bat")

This command runs the mysqldump command. But the mysqldump command needs a password to execute.

How would I go about automatically sending the password to it?

Thanks in advance
Sam

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Member Avatar for vb5prgrmr

Use findwindow to get the handle of the window and then use SendMessage with WM_SETTEXT const. (You can't supply this info in the bat file?)


Good Luck

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Give up shell, you have to start new process by API call, get stdin and stdout handle and you can send/read there commands directly. It can look difficult but it is piece of cake - all what you need is several api calls.

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