Help on Expect

[adamgower]

Hi,
I am trying to use the Expect package commands to telnet to a machine and then execute certian commands on that.

I want to capture the output of each command executed in a variable. Currently I am using the log_file option as shown in the snippet below. However I am sure there must be a cleaner method using expect_out(buffer) but am not able to make it work.

please suggest,

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package require Expect
spawn telnet 172.26.20.70

set id $spawn_id
set a [expect $id login: ]
exp_send -i $id "dhingra\r"

expect $id Password:
exp_send -i $id "monikadhingra\r"

expect $id $
exp_send -i $id "ls\r"
expect $id $
exp_send -i $id "cat /home/dhingra/shell_scripts/first \r"
expect $id $
log_file output_log.log
exp_send -i $id "cat /home/dhingra/shell_scripts/first \r"
expect $id $
log_file
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TIA
Atul

 

[Bong]

I don't know EXPECT but I do know WIKI.

You might look here:

http://mini.net/tcl/11583

or here:

http://mini.net/tcl/3178

or (better) here:

http://mini.net/tcl/2958

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Bob Rashkin