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Q. I have a command that I'm trying to automate that requires a key to be pressed. What can I do?

A. The easiest way to handle commands that require user input and don't support command line switches is to simply pipe the required character to the command. For example, if I need to press y, I could do the following:

cmd /c call ECHO Y | command.exe
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