How to input automatically when running a shell over SSH?

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For simple input, like two prompts and two corresponding fixed responses, you could also use a “here document”, the syntax of which looks like this:

test.sh <<!
y
pasword
!

The << prefixes a pattern, in this case ‘!’. Everything up to a line beginning with that pattern is interpreted as standard input. This approach is similar to the suggestion to pipe a multi-line echo into ssh, except that it saves the fork/exec of the echo command and I find it a bit more readable. The other advantage is that it uses built-in shell functionality so it doesn’t depend on expect.

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