On Sunday 22 May 2005 09:00, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>  For example these two lines are part of a function defined inside a
> script:
>
>  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/snd login
>  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/snd update -d
> cvs-snd index=1
>

Why do you need cvs login in script? You only have to do login once, then CVS 
remembers login/password/repository combination and does not ask for it 
anymore.

>
>  When the second line is executed, the login: prompt stops execution
>  of the script and waits for the <RETURN>.
>
>  Is there a way to automate this ?
>

if you still insist on it

expect
zpty module that is part of zsh

zsh has some examples of using zpty to drive interactive programs, like 
nslookup wrapper.

-andrey