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Expect matches actual command instead of output
That's the thing, sometimes there was no output but the expect command would match because the word "down" was in the command. I did find what I needed though by using the parenthesis to match newline and put things in the expect_out array. For example (this is just off the top of my head for... -
Expect matches actual command instead of output
I have an issue where expect is matching the actual remote command instead of the output. The code is: send "show card 1 | match down\r" expect { "down" {write_card_fail $host} } The problem is expect matches the "down" from the command and not the actual output of the command. Anyway to... -
Expect/TCL - Handling a Telnet connection failure
Ok, I think I came up with a solution. I went ahead with my original plan, but moved the backup and verify functions under the log_in function: proc log_in {host} { global spawn_id spawn telnet $host exp_internal 1 set timeout 30 expect { "Connect failed" { fail $host; return }... -
Expect/TCL - Handling a Telnet connection failure
Hello, I have an Expect script that logs into a number of routers to perform backups and it works pretty well. The problem I am having is figuring what to do when the host is not responding. Here is the snippet for the log in procedure: proc log_in {host} { global spawn_id spawn telnet...
