This script can be used to repeatedly press <a class="zem_slink" title="Electronic keyboard" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_keyboard">keys on the <a class="zem_slink" title="Keyboard (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_%28computing%29">keyboard, it was used to fill out 100 odd entries on a <a class="zem_slink" title="Web page" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page">web page while testing without having to physically enter the data.

Save the code below some where like <a class="zem_slink" title="Filesystem Hierarchy Standard" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard">/usr/bin/ with what ever file name you like, set the file to be <a class="zem_slink" title="Executable" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable">executable with <a class="zem_slink" title="Chmod" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod">chmod +x /usr/bin/keyrepeat

you can then run the command keyrepeat 100 &#8221;1&#8221; or what ever you chose as the <a class="zem_slink" title="Filename" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename">filename of your script.

You will have 5 seconds to focus a window, the program will then simulate a user pressing the keys on the keyboard.

sleep 5 #delay to allow the user to focus a window number=$1 #first parameter, number of times to repeat text=$2 #second parameter, text to repeat will interpret as tab for ((counter=1;counter< =$number;counter+=1)); do #loop required number of times xvkbd -xsendevent -text $text #this sends the text as key presses done

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