Adcfgclone automation question

Question

R12.1.3 running on RH Linux 5.8.
I have my rapid clone configuration almost automated but I run into a problem when running adcfgclone on the appsTier.
I can pass in the apps password but I don't want it to start the services when done so is there a way to pass "N' to adcfgclone.pl while also passing in the apps password?
Example I use now is as shown below but it then sits waiting for Y/N to startup services:
echo ${appspwd} | perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier $CONTEXT_FILE

Answer 1

I believe I have what I need now via 'expect'.
I was assisted by this post http://mohamedelazab.blogspot.ca/2013/07/nice-notes-for-automating-cloning-11i.html
And for anybody else who stumbles on this thread here is what I run now.
When it comes to the adcfgclone step in my bash script I have:
/usr/bin/expect adcfgclone.exp  >$LOG_FILE_HOME/adcfgclone.log
Where the contents of the file are:
================================================================================
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
set force_conservative 0  ;# set to 1 to force conservative mode even if
                          ;# script wasn't run conservatively originally
if {$force_conservative} {
        set send_slow {1 .1}
        proc send {ignore arg} {
                sleep .1
                exp_send -s -- $arg
set timeout -1
spawn perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier /app/oracle/ebsxxx/inst/apps/EBSXXX_yyy/appl/admin/EBSXXX_yyy.xml
match_max 100000
expect -exact "\r
Enter the APPS password : "
send -- "myappspwd\r"
expect -exact "\r
Do you want to startup the Application Services for EBSXXX? (y/n) \[y\] : "
send -- "n\r"
expect eof
==================================================================================
Then I run adautocfg and finally adstrtal.
I hope this post is not premature as I have yet to tun the whole thing together and via cron but on the cmd line works.