Shell script for using interpreters

[Tom Vijlbrief]

In article <602 at nunki.usc.edu> sreerang at castor.usc.edu (Sreeranga Rajan) writes:
>I would like to know how I could write a shell script to perform the
>following actions:
>			enter lisp interpreter
>			load all the required files
>			take input from the keyboard after loading
>			the files
>
>I tried writing the following script, which failed to take in the
>input from the keyboard. 
>			lisp << 'EOF'
>			(load <filename>)
>			'EOF'
>This loads the file and takes the input as EOF, which exits the Franz
>lisp interpreter without waiting for my keyboard input.

Try:

trap "/bin/rm -f /tmp/lispgo$$" 0 1 2 3 15
cat > /tmp/lispgo$$ << 'EOF'
(load <filename>)
EOF
cat -u /tmp/lispgo$$ - | lisp


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