How to send commands into a shell window? 1

[ppathome]

Hi all!

Currently I am working with Solaris 5.8 and would like to do the following from a ksh script:

open up a new terminal window (xterm for example), rlogin in that window to another host, and then run commands in that window.
I know that xterm has the "-e" switch that makes it possible to pass a command as a parameter, like:

xterm -e rlogin host_b -l user_b

This works fine from a script, but after the rlogin, I cannot run any other command from script(because it is already a new shell from unix point of view).
For example I cannot write this into my script:

xterm -e rlogin host_b -l user_b;echo hello world

(in this case echo world will be only executed after I disconnect from host_b...)

Is there a way to "send" a command to that newly opened xterm window so that it executes that command?

Any idea or help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Peter

 

[PHV]

And what about remote shell (rsh, remsh or rcmd) ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[cptk]

ahhhh,

This is what the Expect was designed for ....

Expect allows you to automate interactive programs. It's in the family of the Tcl/TK program set and is well supported and adopted (check-out the Tcl/Tk forum on tek-tips

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=287).

It's well worth your time and energy to look into, the learning curve is pretty small! You can get the free binary version from the link below:

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/more_information.plex

 

[cptk]

...I'd like to also mention that Tcl/Tk is also available on your Solaris disks.