[asterisk-users] How to run a batch file on the asterisk CLI

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:15:56PM -0700, Steve Edwards wrote:
> If you meant "can Asterisk read a series of commands from a file" the 
> answer is no, but something like the following may do:
> 
> 	cat batch-file\
> 		| awk '{printf "/usr/sbin/asterisk -r -x \"%s\"\n", $0}'\
> 		| sh

This is very slow.

A faster option is to use socat and write the commands directly to the
Asterisk socket.

#!/bin/sh

while read line
do 
        echo -n "$line"
        sleep 0.001
done \
| socat STDIN UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl


The short sleep is only needed to guarantee that every line is written 
in a separate write() call .

It will not print any output from any command, though, or even report an
error. And you'll have to end your "programs" with a "quit" line.

With some more tweaking one would get a #!-executable...

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