Expect question 1

[alan147]

Good afternoon

I am trying to use expect to interact with an ftp site, but I need to be able to pass a parameter to the expect script. If I don't set the shell the $1 variable is not recognised, if I set the shell expect fails.

Any ideas.

Thanks, Alan

 

[dstxaix]

I got an expect script as below. I dont remember the poster. See how using set and [lindex] you can pass parameters. Is this what you were looking for?

#! /usr/bin/expect
spawn passwd [lindex $argv 0]
set password [lindex $argv 1]
set npasswor [lindex $argv 2]
expect "password:"
send "$password\r"
expect "password:"
send "$npasswor\r"
expect "password:"
send "$npasswor\r"
expect eof

 

[alan147]

Great

Thanks for your help.

Alan