testing xdotool command

[mazda1]

hello ,

this command seems somewhat peculiar to me because each time I test it in a terminal I have to reinitialize the prompt :

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:~$ xdotool type "example" 
example:~$ example^C  ----> [Ctrl + c] to initialize the prompt

:~$ xdotool type "example" ;  xdotool key Return
example
:~$ example
bash: example : command not found
:~$  

adding xdotool key Return almost did the trick , but there must be a cleaner way so that executing this command ends with a normal prompt .

[manyroads]

What precisely are you attempting to do with xdotool?

[mazda1]

What precisely are you attempting to do with xdotool?

nothing special for the time being , I just want to learn how to use it as I did previously with other commands that I thought would eventually be useful . For now I would like to know if it is possible to imitate the printf command which , just adding \n at the right place , gives place to an initialized prompt :

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:~$ printf "hello"
hello:~$ ^C  ---> ctrl + c to initialize the prompt

which can automatically be done :

:~$ printf "hello\n"
hello
:~$ 

Is there anything like \n for xdotool ?

[Random_Troll]

The type option accepts newlines:

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xdotool type "example
"

[mazda1]

I thought it was xdotool which was peculiar but it's xdotool + type which has a weird behavior ( for me ) , because if I use another option like get_num_desktops or get_desktop everything is as usual :

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:~$ xdotool get_num_desktops
4
:~$ xdotool get_desktop
1
:~$ 

then my search on the net wil be different as I will concentrate on type rather than xdotool

[mazda1]

The type option accepts newlines:

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xdotool type "example
"

I finally found how to change line so I could write the second " on the line below and the result is a bit surprising :

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:~$ xdotool type "example
"
example
:~$ example
bash: example: command not found
:~$ 

I guess that those two lines

~$ example
bash: example: command not found

are normal even if I have no clue about their utility .

many thanks to those who answered my question

[Random_Troll]

I have no clue about their utility

Does this help:

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$ xdotool type "echo hello
> echo another line
> "
echo hello
echo another line
$ echo hello
hello
$ echo another line
another line
$ 

[mazda1]

Does this help:

I am not too sure I understand the meaning of it because the manual about the option type says : type [options] something to type . But what I see is more than typing text , it also is executing twice the echo command . Am I right ? If I am right then this command is more complex than what I thought . If I am right .

OK .. I may have understood what's going on in the "echo hello ..... " case :

1- echo "hello" then echo "another line" are typed as the manual says
2- those two echo are recognized by Bash as commands , then executed .

But in my command with "example" example is not a command still Bash tried to execute it . So no matter what Bash tries to execute what could be a command . Well.... I might be completely wrong .

[Random_Troll]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSPwexlyTo

[manyroads]

FWIW:
https://www.linux.org/threads/xdotool-examples.10705/
https://dev.to/lambdamamba/using-xdotoo ... ments-2p51
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/tr ... ool.1.html