Newbie to KSH Please help

[hg4372]

#!/usr/bin/ksh
# echo "Enter market: \c"
# read market
# echo "Enter username: \c"
# read username
# echo "Enter password: \c"
# read password
market=$1
dt=$(date +%m%d%y)
username=test
password=test

for x in 1
do
{
echo $username
sleep 5
echo $password
sleep 10
echo "print tester.log"
sleep 60
echo "exit;"
}|telnet $market>>/export/home/tester/log/$market.DAILY_$dt

done

Bare with me, I will try to explain what I'm trying to accomplish.

My cron launches a get_tester file that runs this script against 8 different markets. I only want to telnet into each market one time, however I want to print the tester.log file to to the /export/home/tester/log directory then have another do statement to allow me to stay telneted in but print a different file directed to a different file.

Something like this ?

do
{
echo $username
sleep 5
echo $password
sleep 10
echo "print tester.log"
sleep 60
echo "exit;"
}|telnet $market>>/export/home/tester/log/$market.DAILY_$dt

do
{
echo "print helpme.log"
sleep 10
| $market>>/export/home/helpme/log/$market.DAILY_$dt

)
done
done

Please help

 

[Annihilannic]

You could achieve that by starting the telnet process as a co-process, some information here:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/classes/ksh/coprocesses.html

Personally though I would implement the entire script in expect rather than ksh.

Annihilannic.

 

[hg4372]

Would you be able to provide an example of this using expect? I've never messed with that at all.

 

[Annihilannic]

There is a utility called autoexpect which will generate an expect script for you. Try that and see how you go... the script will need editing to remove a lot of the recorded text which may differ for each telnet target.

Annihilannic.