How to Handle Command Line Prompt from a Cocoa App

Asked Jun 09 '15 at 07:35

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I am successfully running a command with code from this answer. It works just as advertised, only problem is that I am running a command that waits for user input in the command line. However, I want my Cocoa app to be able to enter the input to allow for the execution to continue. How do I go about doing this?

The command I am running is ln -s -i <path 1> <path 2> which displays the following prompt when <path 2> already exists: replace <path 2>/<path 1>?

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Which command are you running, and what's the input? – l'L'l Jun 09 '15 at 08:29
Edited question to include requested information. – Stunner Jun 09 '15 at 08:34
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You need to use a pipe. See [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13392271/nstask-nspipe-read-from-unix-command). – Droppy Jun 09 '15 at 08:35

How to Handle Command Line Prompt from a Cocoa App

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