Simulating key press using bash

Question

I try to run gedit from terminal and type some text in a file opened there, but have no success. I try to use gedit; sleep 2; xte -x display 'key k'; command but this one run gedit only(without typing the k char). Can some one chip in me?

Answer 1

Xdotool (no idea what happened to the webpage, here is its source) is great for that:

xdotool key k

And with gedit:

gedit & sleep 2; xdotool key k;